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TIL that feminist American magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1990

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9w557 TIL most animals can see UV light — humans being blind to it is the exception not the rule.
5Y1g8 TIL that DNC party bosses stole the VP nomination from Henry Wallace and got Truman on the ballot with FDR in 1944
D1Abr TIL When The Hobbit was written JRR Tolkien had not yet conceived of the Ring's sinister history. Thus, in the first edition of The Hobbit, Gollum surrenders the Ring to Bilbo as a reward for winning the Riddle Game.
e1BD TIL the FBI seized a server that was being used to host child pornography and ran it for two more weeks. Defendants caught in the sting argued the FBI did a better job hosting a child porn site than whoever originally ran it: The site’s average weekly visitors jumped from 11,000 to 50,000
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.