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TIL Smoking in U.S. hospitals was banned in 1992

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mxlLY TIL that J. Cole graduated from St. John’s University in 2009, but did not receive his diploma until 2015 due to an overdue library book
4XpxJ TIL of the horseshoe theory, in which the far right and the far left in fact closely resemble one another (tendency to support authoritarian governments, etc), such that the political continuum resembles a horseshoe rather than a linear line.
yKYw TIL the writer Roald Dahl’s mission, as a spy for the British government, was to seduce powerful US women in order to gather useful intelligence. For this reason he had to sleep with countless high society women.
7rk7b TIL Alexander Graham Bell was a eugenicist and despite being married to a deaf woman, tried to prevent the use of ASL, in favor of Oralism, and tried to prevent the deaf from marrying each other.
R7aoQ TIL Nigeria's population is expected to not only surpass the US' population by the end of 2050, but to also become the third most populous country by the end of the century