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TIL drinking alcohol in pregnancy is linked to depression in teenagers

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6mvl TIL that besides 9/11, the only other attack by an outside force on Washington D.C. was in 1814 when George Cockburn, an admiral in the British Royal Navy, literally walked into the White House, ate James Madison’s dinner, drank his wine, and then set fire to the place.
0w0ZR TIL the awesomely huge Saturn-5 rockets on the Apollo program hauled over six million pounds of mass into space - that's 2.75M kilos, or 3,000 tons.
b9KD7 TIL that the author of the Japanese horror novel, Battle Royale, had a nightmare where a teacher commanded him and the other students to kill each other. He vividly remembers the expression on his face and his own terror in the dream, which got him to write the book.
yVKDJ TIL Lucy Liu was discovered by an agent while riding on a New York subway, which led to her first role in a commercial
8adXG TIL in 1957, five men stood directly underneath a 2-kiloton nuclear bomb detonated at 18,500 feet to demonstrate how safe it was. One looked up at the explosion through regular sunglasses. They all lived into their 70s or 80s