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TIL When King Ludwig I of Bavaria met Lola Montez, an irish actress/dancer, the first thing he asked her was "are your breasts real?" She became his mistress and power behind the throne, her influence on him been part of the reason why Ludwig was eventually forced to abdicate

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6EYaw TIL Johnny Cash performed dressed all in black, in contrast to most of the major country acts in his day – rhinestone suits and cowboy boots. Cash wrote the song "Man in Black" to explain that he wore black for the poor and hungry and those betrayed by age or drugs.
W5yA TIL the brightest astronomical event was a near-earth supernova that occurred in 1006 A.D. It could be seen with the human eye, was said to be ¼th as bright as the moon, and was cited in texts all over the world at the time.
LkwKd TIL Clint Eastwood was mayor of tiny Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA in the 1980s; he ran because he wanted to lift a ban on public ice cream sales, flew home from movie sets for weekly council meetings, wrote a column in the town paper, and a local hotel changed their slogan to "make my stay".
6EYyQ TIL: Toilet paper wasn’t invented until the 1800s and many countries do not use TP!
ogXR TIL 100 years ago yesterday, an African man killed himself after being held in a Bronx zoo as a “missing link”.