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TIL that President Harry S Truman’s middle name is just the letter S

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yQ9Bv Til the Mothers' Milk Bank quietly offers breastmilk to adults with cancer and other serious illnesses to ease their symptoms.
4XNb6 TIL the most expensive Mega-Project ever was Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, costing 500 billion dollars, spanning 48,181 miles, and dwarfing the cost of every other Mega-Project in history.
e0R1E TIL that a 2002 episode of "The Twilight Zone" addressed the novikov self-consistency principle of time travel: a woman, played by Katherine Heigl, goes back in time to kill baby Hitler. She succeeds, but his mother adopts a child and raises him as Adolf. He grows up to lead the Nazi Party.
nWakW TIL that despite being such a prolific writer, there were only 7 people at Edgar Allan Poe’s funeral which was on Monday, October 8, 1849, in Baltimore. The Reverend decided not to bother with a sermon because the crowd was so small. The entire ceremony lasted only 3 minutes in cold, damp weather.
kOgXg TIL the phrase survival of the fittest is popularly wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. It was coined by a philosopher called Herbert Spencer seven years before Darwin's publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species.