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TIL the real Rosie the Riveter was still alive until recently

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wLMAY TIL the odds of divorce are lowest with zero or one premarital [sex] partners
pYaZ TIL that there is an actual psychological disease which confuses people to think they’re in a dream. Like in Inception when Cobb’s wife kills herself because of this confusion.
jda TIL there wasn’t an actual script for the original Iron Man. In “primitive rehearsals”, RDJ and Jeff Bridges basically ad-libbed their way to full scenes while being coached by Jon Favreau.
E1Amw TIL Volvo renamed their Cream Yellow paint color "Faded Yellow" in Australia, because they knew the paint would eventually fade under the Australian sun due to the technology at the time.
XEWGQ TIL Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, was named Chairmain of the Iraqi Olympic Committee in 1984. Athletes who disappointed him were subject to torture and imprisonment