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TIL George Washington had red hair.

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Oo6r4 TIL about Emma Kelly, the lady of 6000 songs. When asked to go through a playbook and it was found she could sing and play piano for 6000 songs from start to finish. She achieved some notoriety after appearing in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
en15 TIL 90% of American porn is made or produced in San Fernando Valley, aka San Pornando Valley.
JYjd1 TIL coffee is roasted until it "cracks." First crack (about 385 °F) = light roast, second crack (about 435 °F) = dark roast. If roasted past the second crack, the beans will fully carbonize and may combust.
nevRW TIL that the Pythagorean theorem was discovered and proven by Babylonian mathematicians 1000 years before Pythagoras was born
9w8mr TIL “Scared Straight” interventions are ineffective and may in fact increase delinquency relative to no treatment at all