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TIL "The rabbit died" used to be a common euphemism for a positive pregnancy test

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GY5DG TIL about the Oslo Breakfast, a meal that began to be served to Norwegian schoolchildren starting 1932. A typical version included an orange, milk, whole-wheat bread, rye biscuit, cheese, carrot and a spoon of cod-liver oil. It reportedly increased the average height of 14 year olds by 4 inches.
R79nl TIL Masayoshi Son, the 2nd richest man in Japan, holds the distinction of losing the most money in history. He lost approximately $70 BILLION in the dot-com bust of 2000.
BrDyx TIL The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on earth, with some regions having never recorded any rainfall
dmB9 TIL The Mormon Church created its own alphabet
vPJ4 TIL that upon becoming the first black man to obtain a PhD from Harvard, W.E DuBois said: “The honor, I assure you, was Harvard’s.”