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TIL That Mae West, the Pre-Code Queen, got arrested multiple times for obscenity, even having her play “Drag” taken off Broadway for having homosexual content. She went on to become one of the most famous film stars of the 1930s, being the originator of the phrase “Come up and see me sometime.”

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v1nDK TIL Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, is the only surviving bassoon concerto of the five concertos that he wrote for it. The bassoon was already a well-established solo instrument in the Baroque period, having inspired Antonio Vivaldi to write 39 concertos for bassoon
jdOR TIL that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs won Walt Disney a special kind of Oscar:It consisted of one full size Oscar and seven miniature ones.
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
b6g77 TIL that in the early 20th Century, Chicken was considered a spring delicacy in the USA, raised seasonally by Farm Wives. Then during WWII, red meat was heavily rationed and Chicken Farming became industrialized. In 1930, average Americans ate 10 lbs of Chicken annually. Now we eat 64 lbs annually.
x6Egk TIL that lato-lato were actually banned in the US in the 1970s as Clackers because of material that would shatter, then fly into your face and injure you.