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TIL 100 years ago, the big band song "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" worried that women were too manly for smoking and playing pool, while men were too effeminate for buying cologne and dressing their children

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epBvk TIL Ronald Reagan would eat jelly beans to help him quit smoking. He had over 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month, he would give them away to visitors and staff regularly. His favorite flavor was black licorice and there are special "Jelly Belly Ronald Reagan" packs.
oRvkK TIL that the law firm Morgan & Morgan fired half of its marketing department in 2021 because they criticized the firm's "Size Matters" campaign as an inappropriate joke.
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kW4W TIL that in Iceland, the syncretism between traditional beliefs and Christianity has led some people to create tiny little churches to convert elves.