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TIL Cashmere Wool Comes From Goats, Not Sheep
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TIL British Matinee Idol Dirk Bogarde was painting in France when he realised the field in which he had set up was littered with children’s skulls. They turned out to have died in a WW2 bombing raid he himself had ordered years earlier.
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TIL The Great Famine of Ireland caused such a significant population decline that it still hasn't recovered, 180 years later
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TIL while writing "The Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck borrowed from the notes of Sanora Babb without her knowledge. She was using the notes for her own book, which was then shelved by the publisher, and finally published in 2004
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TIL Happy Hour Is Banned In These 9 States
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TIL that in Zimbabwe, there's a contest to crown the ugliest man. It's called Mr. Ugly, where contestants compete for the title of the ugliest. The winner, chosen by either a jury or public vote, walks away with a $500 prize.