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TIL that the hairstyle Perm is short for Permanent.

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MLX0 TIL: For over a decade Sen. John McCain has been trying to get a presidential posthumous pardon for black boxer Jack Johnson, who in 1912 was imprisoned for transporting a white girlfriend across state lines.
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woY9Y TIL That in 1913, sickly Japanese Emperor Taisho rolled a prepared speech paper into a tube and stared through it like a telescope instead of reading that speech to parliament.
VBgaZ TIL honeybees can understand the concept of zero.
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