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TIL that race can be identified genetically with almost 100% accuracy, despite people claimijg it doesn't exist

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dmJd TIL that Harry Truman, due to his very poor eyesight, secretly memorized the eye charts in order to enlist in the Missouri Army National Guard
e06DE TIL that Henry Ford's intense hatred of Jazz drove him to pump tons of money into promoting country music, which was then called "old time music" and helped establish country music culture as we know it today.
xVWY5 TIL of the Five Whys method, invented by Sakichi Toyoda (b. 1867, d. 1930, founder of Toyota industries) as a method of working through symptoms until a root cause is discovered by asking "Why?" five times.
O7V1 TIL social conventions in the 1800s dictated that boys between ages 0 to 7 wore dresses, grew out their hair, and dressed in pink. They were not allowed to have their first haircut until 6 or 7 years old, and wore dresses until then too. There is even a picture of FDR presented as such.
AZb4 TIL C.S. Lewis had two requirements for a film adaptation of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”: It should not be live-action, and Disney should not be involved.