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TIL if you're an American adult, there is a 1/5 chance you have a mental illness.

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mx00O TIL that the second officer of the Titanic stayed onboard till the end and was trapped underwater until a boiler explosion set him free. Later, he volunteered in WW2 and helped evacuate over 120 men from Dunkirk
yQvXV TIL Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that outlawed all racial discrimination. Despite receiving a majority vote for it to be added to the treaty Woodrow Wilson personally vetoed the measure and as a comprise let Japan claim a number of islands in the Pacific.
A957 TIL the audience at Woodstock, which had peaked at an estimated 400,000, was down to about 30,000 by the time Jimi Hendrix took the stage, many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his performance
a8r69 TIL that Keith Hernandez testified before a federal grand jury in September 1985 that an estimated 40 percent of MLB players used cocaine. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates mascot, the Pirate Parrott, was implicated for buying cocaine.
vP4oK TIL that women’s susceptibility to motion sickness increases or decreases depending on the day of the menstrual cycle