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TIL The expiration date on water bottles is for the bottle, not the water

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0ddkL TIL that Martin Van Buren was not only the first president born in the USA, but also the first president to speak English as a second language
6EPMZ TIL of William James Sidis, a child prodigy who able to read the New York Times by the age of two, got into Harvard aged 12, and had an IQ of 250-300. He lived his adult live in relative seclusion and died (a virgin) of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 46.
xAo5 TIL, 11.9% of all children in Africa are orphans
enyE TIL Aquinas said that rape is less serious than masturbation because at least in the case of rape the genitalia are being used for their proper purpose and conception might result.
KOGeJ TIL People started wearing pajamas, originally spelled “pyjamas,” instead of nightgowns so they’d be prepared to run outside in public during World War I air raids in England.