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TIL People who drink whole milk are less likely to be fat than those who consume low-fat milk.

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8aNnX TIL in September 1554 Mary I of England started to show the first signs of pregnancy. When by July the following year she still hadn't given birth, the Venetian ambassador Giovanni Michieli mocked that the pregnancy would more likely "end in wind rather than anything else".
xwOo TIL painter Bob Ross, a Florida native, had never seen snow or mountains that he went on to so frequently depict until he was posted to Alaska during his service in the United States Air Force.
jwMp TIL that Ringo Starr changed the lyrics of “With a Little Help From My Friends” because he feared audiences would throw tomatoes at him
VZM8 TIL Churchill’s ‘We will fight on the beaches’ speech was never recorded. The famous recording is him reciting it in his home 4 years after the war.
KOL06 TIL that the worlds first democratic federal government is thought to be the First Nations Iroquois Confederacy established sometime in the late 17th to early 18th century. That was before the revolutions in Europe.