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TIL women in the early 1900’s would stab catcallers with their hatpins

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vPy5r TIL that Rick Moranis, Martin Short, and Robin Williams were all considered to play the lead role in The Mask (1994). Director Chuck Russell picked Jim Carrey after seeing him on the sketch comedy show "In Living Color", but Nicolas Cage and Matthew Broderick were also kept in consideration.
0dGn1 TIL immediately after his Gettysburg speech, Lincoln came down with a mild case of smallpox to which he quipped: "For once in my life as president, I am in a position to give everybody something."
7rK7b TIL that it used to be a job to drive around the country, constantly, driving and measuring every road, grade, elevation, and distance, in order to keep road maps updating accurately every two weeks. "Road scouts" would drive enough miles in a year to make multiple trips to the moon.
EgB1d TIL after the holidays, the Rockefeller Christmas tree is cut into lumber for Habitat for Humanity homes
vPNM8 TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci played a significant role in the founding of modern paleontology