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TIL in 1926, women in Toronto competed to produce the most babies over a 10 year period. The winner would receive the estate of a well-known lawyer/practical joker.

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16odX TIL that the Magyarab people are a community living in Nubia, along the Nile in Sudan and Egypt, that have distant Hungarian ancestors who intermarried with locals in the 16th century.
XEJRE TIL that pet fur is good to leave out for birds who need nesting materials (as long as it has no flea treatment residue), but human hair is too long and causes them problems. Many animals and insects need help as habitats are shrinking globally.
WQ8A TIL Marilyn Monroe’s signature breathy voice was a strategy to conceal her stutter
GYwnj TIL that the etymological history of the word 'Slavs" stems from the Middle English word "sclave" which means slaves given that medieval Slavs were routinely captured and enslaved during wars in the Middle Ages.
95WX TIL President McKinley was assassinated 113 years ago today. Shot by a crazed Polish anarchist, the the second bullet went through the President’s stomach and lodged near his back. The doctors didn’t find the bullet and McKinley died of gangrene eight days later.