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TIL The first person to receive a Social Security check,Ida May Fuller, collected $22,889 despite only contributed $25.

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yMYw TIL that the most expensive fossil ever sold was Sue the T Rex, a 40-foot 80% complete specimen discovered in South Dakota in 1990. She was sold at auction to Chicago’s Field Museum for $7,600,000.00.
AP5B TIL that, in the 19th Centruy, women believed to be suffering from hysteria were treated with pelvic physical therapy - that’s an orgasm to you and me.
PY7re TIL that in the early 19th-century the planet "Vulcan" was believed to actually exist in our solar system. Oddities in the orbit of Mercury led mathematicians to predict the presence of another planet closer to the sun. Later, Einstein's new theories of relativity helped disprove that hypothesis.
WkQM8 TIL the word Avocado comes from a Nahuatl Indian (Aztec) word “ahuácatl” meaning testicle.
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