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TIL that JFK ordered 1200 Cuban cigars just a day before declaring the Cuban trade embargo.

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npwG TIL that the first pregnancy tests on record were in Ancient Egypt. Women would pee on a field of wheat and barley. If the wheat sprouted, it was going to be a girl. If the barley sprouted, it was going to be a boy. If neither sprouted, the woman wasn’t pregnant.
gpRW TIL males receive, on average, 63% longer sentences than females for the exact same crime.
W4d8 TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did.
NB48 Til A California judge tossed out a case against a former Navy man caught in a sting orchestrated by the NBC program To catch a predator in part because the show’s producers engage in entrapment.
p8Yyp TIL: 1 in 20 Americans is a Millionaire