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TIL that human hair can be used to accurately measure relative humidity in the air. Human hair hygrometers have been in use since the 18th century.

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NVPb TIL that the only heir to the mighty Mughal Empire lives in abject powerty in a slum in Kolkhata, running a tea stall.
kOKvB TIL actress Dana Plato appeared on the Howard Stern Show in 1999. Recovering from past drug addiction, she was shamed and pressured by the host and the callers, some who doubted her sobriety. She commited suicide the next day by prescription drug overdose.
R7JY4 TIL that Dolly Parton, as a child slept in a urine soaked bed with several siblings, going on to add in this 1986 interview: “I’ve been aware of sex all my life. I enjoy sex, yeah all my life. Well I mean I got six brothers and cousins and you know all the sisters, kids are curious”
dDW57 TIL that Ayn Rand interviewed Oppenheimer twice in 1946 after being hired to write a screenplay on the creation of the atomic bomb, and she later based one of Atlas Shrugged's characters on him.
78pNP TIL Neptune has only made one rotation around the sun since its discovery in 1846