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TIL that in a kingdom in India it was illegal for women to cover their breasts until the 19th century.

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n6j7 TIL George Carlin was court-martialed three times in less than three years during his service in the Air Force, once for smoking a joint in the crawlspace of a B-47.
69EW8 TIL that the reason the English football club Sheffield Wednesday is named after the day of the week is because the factory workers who played for the team had a half day on Wednesday
5YrxD TIL Tool's CD Lateralus is composed so if you reorder the tracks using the Fibonacci sequence, you get a new album: "The Holy Gift"
d8mkj TIL that Dr. Frasier Crane's accent is called "Transatlantic" and is neither truly American nor British.
4vNb TIL that during the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks, Fox News decided to add a news slider that crawled at the bottom of the screen to give updates. It was so effective that other news channels began to implement it even to this day.