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TIL that blind women also care about fashion and makeup

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MeZEa TIL that in October 1940 the Soviet Union was offered an entry into the Axis powers; but agreements upon spheres of influences weren't reached.
e06Ln TIL that at a 1993 Lollapalooza show, Rage Against the Machine stood on stage naked with duct-taped mouths for 14 minutes in protest against the Parents Music Resource Council. The only sound was feedback from the guitars.
LQ0ZZ TIL that mad Swiss novelist Robert Walser hand-wrote his later novels in “Microscripts”, such difficult microscopic pencil script that it took years after his death to decipher them. It didn't help that he spent the last 3 decades of his life in a mental institution, suffering from schizophrenia.
a841J TIL In 1985 a private radiotherapy clinic in Brazil was abandoned, leaving behind a radiation source with 100 grams of Cesium-137. Thieves stole the container in 1987. Over 200 people were contaminated and 4 people died after it was broken into (and the glowing blue dust was spread around)
BrGJL TIL that their are 17 flavors of Maruchan instant ramen including ones like lime chili shrimp