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TIL that Justice Ginsberg wears a different collar depending on whether she agrees with the majority or minority opinion in supreme court opinions.

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6EQOl TIL Pregnant women that frequently consumed diet beverages with artificial sweeteners were two times more likely to have babies who were overweight or obese at one year after birth. Also artificial sweeteners weaken the link in our brains between sweetness and calories which can lead to weight gain.
kJpwW TIL After assaulting two people, Monroe Isadore, a 107-year-old man from Arkansas, died in a shootout with a SWAT team.
yQPV TIL Jacklyn H. Lucas, who joined the Marines when he was 14, stormed Iwo Jima when he was 17, and is one of the few people in the world to have fallen on not one, but two grenades to save comrades, and survive.
nWjBd TIL A Carthaginian peace is when the losing side is punished to the point it is crippled. The Treaty of Versailles was described by some economists as a Carthaginian peace and there were plans to cripple West Germany after WW2 but the Marshall Plan to rebuild was chosen instead.
Xd06 TIL that a lesbian journalist went undercover as a straight white male for 18 months. She concluded that “Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have, but they don’t have it better… I like [being a woman] more now because I think it’s more of a privilege.”