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TIL millennials now outnumber baby boomers.

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7rkoO TIL in the 1940s baseball umpires were called “guessers.” Anyone who questioned their calls were known as secondguessers, which is how the word second-guess was introduced to the English language.
Q8EL TIL that Hypatia, the first well known woman mathematician, was murdered by a mob of Christians who ripped off her skin with sharp tiles and seashells.
b9QeE TIL: some people cut their hair with a vacuum
VMeN4 TIL There are no hummingbirds in Hawaii and never will be thanks to pineapples
pYG1G TIL Soviet ballet prodigy Rudolf Nureyev was from a Muslim Tartar family and started dance in Bashkir folk performances. On tour in Paris, he escaped the KGB to socialize at gay bars and with foreigners. In retaliation for defecting to the West, he was banned from seeing his mother for 25 years.