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TIL Mark Twain invented and patented the bra-strap clasp.

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g9O7 TIL Bill Watterson, Creator of Calvin and Hobbes, stashed autographed copies at his local book store
g4ly TIL Abraham Lincoln once co-owned a pub with a man named William Berry. The duo appropriately named their bar, “Berry and Lincoln”. It opened in Springfield, IL in 1834.
xVMbg TIL to get around a law forbidding state banishment, Georgia judges can ban criminals from 158 of the 159 state counties. They send people to Echols County which is so boring, criminals choose to leave the state rather than live there
GYd8G TIL that between 1978 and 1983, John Williams won six Grammy Awards for Best Score in a row. He won them for Star Wars, Close Encounters, Superman, Empire, Raiders, and E.T.
4Gga TIL That a drug dealer was caught running from the cops in the woods because of his light up shoes