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VB5Np TIL Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas had to overcome another band member's concerns that her voice was too low for his arrangements and that her obesity would hurt the band's success.
4dXR TIL that in 1989, a group calling itself “The Breeders” deliberately caused a medfly infestation in California, devastating crops and causing millions in damage. No suspects were ever identified.
xVwV7 TIL Since 1953, women in South Korea have been allowed to take one day off a month if they have painful periods.
pBmG TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to make Harry Potter an animated movie.
NXGxE TIL: 21 year old P.T. Barnum became a bit of a liberal celebrity after publishing an article excoriating a local church dignitary for the crime of “taking usury of an orphan boy." Which landed Barnum in jail for more than two months.