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TIL that when photographer Yousef Karsh took a photo of Winston Churchill, Yousef took the cigar straight from Churchills mouth and took the photo. This was the grumpy result.

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YpRJr TIL that prior to its eradication in 1980, small pox killed an estimated 300-500 million people in the 20th century alone
LkBLr TIL Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. His most famous work was a six volume memoir about WW2, but he also wrote a science fiction alternate history story about the US Civil War.
kJWXE TIL that Wilma Flintstone was the first animated character to be depicted as being pregnant
e0p9n TIL that 28 fossils of the largest extinct species of snake were discovered in a coal mine of Columbia. The "Titanoboa" lived about 65 million years ago. The species clocked out at about 48 feet long and weighed roughly 2,500 lb.
e0QK5 TIL that in 1940, nearly 19 million people lived in the USA colonies, the great bulk of them in the Philippines. That meant slightly more than one in eight of the people in the USA lived outside of the states. For perspective, only about one in 12 of the people in the USA was African American