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TIL A Roman Catholic physician developed the first modern form of birth control.

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Z8OZY TIL the 31st Vice President of the United States Charles Curtis was 3/8 Native American raised on reservations and his dad fought in the Civil War Kansas Volunteers.
yn7X TIL the guy that ran against Hitler in the German Presidential Election of 1932 was arrested 1 year later, thrown into solitary confinement until 1944, and then shot on Hitlers order.
a8NnL TIL of a place called Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky
KOnPQ TIL there was only 66 years between the first flight and landing on the moon
781mZ TIL John Heisman, whom the Heisman Trophy was named for, was Georgia Tech's head coach for its 222-0 game against Cumberland and ran up the score as payback for Cumberland baseball team's thrashing Heisman's coached GA Tech baseball team 22-0 earlier in the same year.