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TIL that Stephen Cobert donated his portrait to the Smithsonian Institution, which accepted it initially on loan, and displayed it between two bathrooms and above a water fountain at the National Portrait Gallery

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KORZ4 Til that an average American spends 700 dollars on gifts and holiday goodies, which totals upto 400 billion dollars each year
WOdA TIL that before the Civil War, some psychiatrists diagnosed slaves with what they called drapetomania: “a mental illness in which the slave possessed an irrational desire for freedom and a tendency to try to escape.”
8avbV TIL The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901. It is often cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs.
E4AX TIL Reddit is ranked#116 of the 1,000,000 top websites
kEpW TIL In her autobiography, Ethel Merman had a chapter on her fourth and final marriage. The chapter entitled “My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine” consisted of one blank page.