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TIL the average high schooler has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient did in the early 1950s

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KYOG4 TIL 20% of the population of the Six Nations tribes fought in WW2. The Choctaw language baffled German codebreakers, and Iroquois, who had officially declared war during WW1 and never made peace, officially declared war on Germany again during WW2.
gMj44 TIL "Strange Fruit" is a song recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. It protests the lynching of Black Americans, with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. The song has been called "a declaration of war" and "the beginning of the civil rights movement".
kJWD7 TIL that Ian Fleming, the author who created the character of James Bond named the first ever Bond girl, Vesper Lynd of Casino Royale, after a cocktail. The drink was a mix of frozen rum, fruit and herbs that Ian had stumbled across in Jamaica.
x6j5k TIL Neil Armstrong became a professor after he walked on the moon, teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
PYAbw TIL When studied by the New England Journal of Medicine, kids without coats did not catch colds, viruses, or any other bacteria-related illness by not wearing a coat outside in cold weather