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TIL that in America in 1960, 30% of all brides gave birth within 8.5 months of their wedding

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aKXL TIL that in the German version of Die Hard, the villain Hans Gruber is rewritten to be Irish, not German, and renamed Jack Gruber
W7MDN TIL that around 109 billion humans have lived and died over the last 192,000 years, according to demographers from the Population Reference Bureau
EgZmp TIL that blue whales and fin whales can produce fertile hybrids, despite their genetic distance being similair to that between humans and gorillas.
v1JK7 TIL of Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy and also the first black player to be drafted with the #1 draft pick, but never got to play a single day of professional football. He died of leukemia at 23.
d81J9 TIL about the Sole Survivor Policy in the United States military, which protects "only sons/daughters", "the last son/daughter to carry the family name", and "sole surviving sons/daughters" only during peacetime.