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TIL In 2016, the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Hollywood paid $4.8 million for Marilyn Monroe's “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress that Monroe wore at JFK's 45th birthday celebration. The purchase cements it as one of the most expensive pieces of pop-culture memorabilia of all time.

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nW7Wd TIL that the wristwatch was originally worn by women, only becoming accepted as a men's accessory over a century later due to the need for efficient, one-handed timekeeping by pilots and soldiers.
Bg6LK TIL that the moon has moonquakes that are caused by gravitational pull from both the Earth and the Sun.
wL9O1 TIL that the iconic "eagle scream" we all know is actually the redtailed hawk's cry
XEMx8 TIL Alabama still hasn’t removed segregation from it’s constitution. Section 256: “Separate schools shall be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race.”
wDmM TIL saying the same word over and over until it loses it’s meaning is a real thing called semantic satiation