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TIL Ol’ Dirty Bastard was the first person convicted under a California law making it illegal for a convicted felon to wear a bulletproof vest.

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m10wO TIL the reason the stitch length dial goes from 0 to 4 or 7, depending on the sewing machine, is because the dial is calibrated in millimeters for stitches per inch.
4Xg9a TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.
DQwwD TIL in 1973, food manufacturer Mario Fabbrini held "The Great Michigan Pizza Burial" after 40,000 of his frozen pies were recalled due to botulism concerns. They were dumped in a grave in Ossineke during a service attended by hundreds, with the state governer even giving a eulogy of sorts.
pYx0p TIL The majority of white voters have voted for Republicans in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s
JYg58 TIL Nikki Reed moved out of her mother's house and began living on her own at age 14. After success of her movie "Thirteen", Reed returned to high school but dropped out again after a year because of "mothers who were sneaking into the school at lunchtime to confront and harass her about the film"