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TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses

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m4rM TIL the word “spam” used to only refer to the canned meat until a Monty Python sketch associated it with terms such as “repetition” when it showed a restaurant menu listing mostly spam-related meals.
XEe8r TIL Mary Babnik Brown donated her hair during WWII and later received a personal letter of thanks from Ronald Reagan explaining that her hair had been the perfect fit for complex bombsight called a Norden sight. Both wire and spider silk had been used beforehand, and neither worked as well.
0dEEv TIL the Baseball Hall of Fame has never paid a dollar to acquire a single item
0dkkL TIL a “seal” is used between components that move – a “gasket” is used between components that are static
wLyM6 TIL that when Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Gone with the Wind, the first Oscar won by any black entertainer, she had been sitting at a segregated table at the far wall of the room. The venue had a strict no-blacks policy and had only allowed McDaniel in as a favour.