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TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’

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6Egl7 TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
dkWr TIL workers bear 70 percent of the corporate tax burden.
v5m7 TIL That an unnamed Nurse appeared in more episodes of House, M.D. (134 Episodes) then main characters like Dr. Cameron (130) and Dr. Taub (96).
KMWE TIL that illiterate immigrant Jews signed with a circle in lieu of their names. The Yiddish word for Circle was kikel, leading to the ethnic slur “kike”
D16jj TIL in 1490, the Ming Dynasty reportedly experienced a meteor shower so severe it resulted in a “rain of rocks”, killing several tens of thousands of people, according to some official sources