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TIL Veronica Lake's peekaboo hairstyle was so popular during WW2 that the U.S. government asked her to change it to something more suited for factory work. She soon obliged and unveiled her new look: the victory roll.

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v1e54 TIL that in 1972, artist Dieter Meier installed a commemorative plaque at the railway station in Kassel, Germany, which read: "On 23 March 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later.
MMP7 TIL Steve from Blues Clues, while on a date with a Playboy model, crashed a random child’s theme birthday party.
1MMW TIL The United States Defense Budget of $698 Billion is More Than the Next Seventeen Nations Combined
bE80 TIL that the last car to have a cassette deck come standard was the Lexus SC430, in 2010.
4Eja TIL in the graveyard scene in the movie Zoolander, Ben Stiller forgot his line after David Duchovny’s long response to the question “Why male models?” and instead, just repeated the question