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TIL of the existence of the English speech contraction “there’re”.

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GYGQj TIL: In the 1920s, fashion-designer Coco Chanel accidentally got sunburnt while visiting the French Riviera, she returned home with a sun tan. Because of Coco’s status and the longing for her lifestyle by other members of society, tanned skin became seen as fashionable, healthy, and luxurious.
5Y1LQ TIL that in 1967, the Tax Court of the United States ruled, over IRS protests, that catching a baseball one‐handed was so remarkable and valuable a technique that a player was justified in deducting as a business expense a cash payment to his father as compensation for teaching him
OGjaX TIL the oldest surviving Alt History work is in Book 9 of Livy's History of Rome, in which he muses about Alexander the Great turning West and invading Rome
6jbw TIL that the world’s oldest cat died at the age of 38. She was born in 1967, and died in 2005
ZKXo TIL There are over 190 million less women in the world because of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide