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TIL if people had herbivorous pets instead of dogs and cats, 6.9 billion animal lives would be spared from slaughter every year

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5VYKp TIL that the jacket that Jackie Kennedy (John F. Kennedy's wife) wore on the day of JFK's assassination cannot be displayed in public until the year 2103.
eOXb TIL: Loneliness can be just as deadly as smoking cigarettes, it is considered a serious life threatening health condition.
wRJW TIL that Millennials Are Having Way Less Sex Than Their Parents and are twice as likely as the previous generation to be virgins
E1BNd TIL that Dr. James Barry, a celebrated surgeon, was born Margaret Bulkley and adopted a male persona to become the UK’s first female doctor, carrying out the first successful caesarean delivery. She fooled the Army, high society & the whole British Empire. This secret was only revealed after death.
PYwMJ TIL in 1721, the now-Lutheran Danish sent missionaries to Greenland, as it was assumed the medieval Norse settlers must still be Catholic or had reverted to paganism. The Norse had died out in the early 1400s, but the Danes found Inuit there instead