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TIL that the model for Snow White in the 1937 film is still alive today

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VMKd4 TIL a lawyer used his will for practical jokes. He gave a house to 3 men who hated each other, stocks in a brewery to preachers, shares of a racetrack to each ministers "except Spracklin, who shot a hotelkeeper", and gave the rest to whoever had the most kids in 10 years.
OGQwg TIL that in 1997 Twister became the first movie ever released on DVD in the U.S.
v81R TIL When the legions that conquered Gaul returned with blond slaves, Roman women tried to lighten their hair. However, the substances often caused hair loss, so they resorted to wigs made from the captives’ hair.
nojB TIL of Bobbie the Wonder Dog, who walked from Indiana to Oregon to return to his family
d8E9K TIL: Mayo Buckner spent 59 years in a mental institute before doctors admitted he was actually sane, and always had been.