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TIL in the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.

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NeoE TIL: The average age of menarche (first period in girls) declined from 17 to 13 in Europe from 1850 to 1960, and is well documented
wLYPo TIL if all arteries, veins, and capillaries of the a person's circulatory system were laid end to end, not only would that person be dead, but their blood vessels could stretch around the Earth nearly two and a half times (60,000 miles/100,000 km).
kJJNB TIL Texas no loner accepts last meal requests for death row inmates, after a murderer ordered a feast and refused to eat it in 2011.
d8KOQ TIL that the fade-out at the end of Holst's Neptune was achieved by slowly closing the door on a female choir as they sang in another room.
MRga TIL: “Memes” are a scientific term for memetics and basically categorized as mental “virus” or “parasites” where they “infect” hosts to spread self replicating ideas…