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TIL Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” played on AFN radio in South Vietnam was the signal to Americans to begin evacuation in 1975

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G8xN TIL that the CDC has urged that schools open later because two-thirds of teenagers suffer chronic sleep deprivation.
yx8e TIL Kosher salt isn’t any more kosher than regular table salt. It gets its name from its use in making meats kosher by removing surface blood.
v1187 Turns out, our ancient ancestors' consumption of fermented fruits created a genetic mutation that be the cause of alcoholism in people today.
56nB TIL Princeton, an Ivy League university, doesn’t have a business, law, or medical school
X091j TIL of the Marikina Valley fault system. A fault system that passes through the densely populated Metro Manila.