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TIL Whiskey means "Water of Life"
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TIL Tom Hanks is a distant cousin to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s mother. They are third cousins, 4 times removed.
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TIL about Chad Pregracke, who,when he was 23, after witnessing immense levels of trash on the Mississippi River in IL, started a nonprofit to address it. Since then, they have removed 5,000 tons of trash from the Mississippi and it’s tributaries.
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TIL NORAD started tracking Santa Claus when, during the Cold War, a typo in a newspaper lead a 5-year-old to call a top-secret emergency line reserved for the president. The general who answered pretended to be Santa after learning of the kid's mistake.
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TIL: When FDR died, Eleanor Roosevelt told Harry Truman that the president was dead. When he asked there was anything he could do for her, she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
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TIL baby spit backwashes into the breast during breastfeeding so the mother’s body can adjust the breastmilk composition based on the baby’s health