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TIL Glass fiber dresses were a fad for a few years in the 1890s, and the NYT even predicted they’d be more popular

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kOmRW TIL of Donald Caskie, "the Tartan Pimpernel", a Church of Scotland minister working in Paris who helped 500 Allied servicemen escape occupied France during World War II
XEmmQ TIL the day Jimi Hendrix died, Eric Clapton had bought a left-handed Fender Stratocaster as a gift for him. He intended on presenting it during a Sly Stone concert at the Lyceum that night, but Hendrix never showed up. The next day, Clapton learned why.
xVBv1 TIL of the Battle of Cable Street, with saw protesters confront Met police and Blackshirts from the BUF at a fascist march in 1936. A commemorative plaque about the incident reads "They Shall Not Pass".
yQQYV Exactly today (Dec. 26th, 2016) I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 27 months. If you're reading this later, you can do the math yourself. A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell.
JoZm TIL the first use of “toast” as a metaphorical term for “you’re dead” was in the 1984 film Ghostbusters.