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TIL that an MIT-educated biologist, Katharine McCormick, inherited a substantial family fortune and funded the development of the first birth control pill in the 1950s

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dD44E TIL that baby kangaroos are born as fetuses and climb into their mothers pouches to finish gestation. Mother kangaroos can suspend their pregnancies and produce four different types of specialized milk at one time to satisfy the developmental needs of individual offspring.
0dprM TIL what grep stands for (“Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print it”)
gMxLW TIL There used to be Big 5 accounting companies, the extra being Arthur Andersen. It dissolved due to collapse of Enron when Enron filed for biggest bankruptcy in the history of USA. Accenture, is the business and technology consulting division of Arthur Andersen.
4aKb TIL in 2008 a neo-Nazi group adopted a stretch of Missouri highway; much to the chagrin of state officials who couldn’t afford a lengthy legal battle. Instead, they renamed the highway after Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who fled the Nazis and became a prominent theologian and civil rights advocate
4XYOb TIL Despite widespread belief by the public and many clinical psychologists, repressed memory remains unproven and highly controversial.