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TIL of The Peculiar Flapper Fad of Rouged and Decorated Knees

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0app TIL if you have one Irish grandparent, you are eligible for Irish citizenship (w/ fee). You don’t need to have even been to Ireland or know the first thing about the country to apply. For non-Europeans, this means you get a passport that allows you to work and live anywhere in the EU.
x6Ve7 TIL the first motorcycle to be designed, manufactured, and sold in Japan was the NS motorcycle created by Narazo Shimazu in 1908. He developed a two-cycle motorcycle engine and reused bicycles for the frame. He only made twenty of these.
4ZOw TIL in 2004, there were three major computer virus authors at “war” with each other. They were the Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom worms. Netsky was most famous for comments within the code insulting the authors of the other viruses and, in some cases, routines that removed versions of the other viruses.
R5b01 TIL the PF in PF Chang's is for Paul Fleming, a restaurant entrepreneur from Louisiana.
pGeN TIL the saxaphone was banned in Nazi Germany for being too sexy.