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TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it

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R58G6 TIL the expression "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" comes from the 1878 novel 'Molly Bawn' by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
rgKe TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy’s weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.
N7yX6 TIL that of the 77 Olympians competing in the golf tournament at the 1904 Summer Olympics, 74 of them represented the USA and 3 of them represented Canada. Canada won the Gold.
gb5y TIL: Joan Kroc, wife of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc, donated over $1 billion to the Salvation Army. At one point, she tried to donate the Padres baseball team to San Diego, but the MLB rules forbid public ownership.
mxn0E TIL although the TV show "Friends" ended in 2004, the six main cast members still receive a yearly check of $20 million in royalties alone.