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TIL of Juliet Prowse, who was engaged to Frank Sinatra, had an affair with Elvis, and was the first ever guest on The Muppet Show

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6rmW TIL that Louisiana has its own version of French called “Creole French” which only 70'000 people can speak. It varies so much from standard French that native French speakers cannot understand it.
MewRa TIL destitute mothers would leave a playing card when abandoning their child. If the card was torn in half, it meant that the mother would someday return with her half of the card to claim the child. If card was whole, it meant that the child was fully abandoned and the mother would not return.
NRw1 TIL the KKK didn’t originally burn crosses. It wasn’t until they were portrayed doing so in the 1915 silent film “Birth of a Nation” that the real KKK actually started doing it.
xrG0 TIL that a Russian woman in Chernobyl is making YouTube videos while injecting herself with radiation and eating apples from the Exclusion Zone. She also picks up pieces of the radioactive reactor core.
YmlA TIL John Cena holds the record for wishes granted with the Make-A-Wish foundation by any celebrity at over 400