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TIL Benjamin Franklin became a vocal advocate for inoculation after losing his oldest son to smallpox.

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m11RE TIL Stored fresh vegetables have lower vitamin C content than frozen ones.
6EDwJ TIL Salvador Dali was a cheapskate who liked to appear generous to his friends by inviting them to fancy restaurants. When it was time to pay the bill, he would write out a check then doodle a sketch on the reverse, knowing that the restauranteur would never cash a check bearing one of his sketches
yQWwl TIL about the Official Table of Drops, a manual that is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings.
956 TIL that women become more biased against men from other races when they’re fertile.
wL0RW TIL about the French phrase “tirer les vers du nez” which literally translates as “to pull the worms from somebody’s nose” but means to make someone tell a secret/the truth. It became a popular phrase after the rise of nasal parasites in the 15th century.