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TIL the politicization of science likely led to the famine deaths of millions in the USSR and China

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7rbYX TIL: Pheromone in baby mouse tears makes female mice less interested in sex.
jXAN TIL The Seaside Inn in Kennebunkport, Maine has been in continuous operation under the Gooch family since 1667, making it one of the oldest companies in the United States. The inn is currently owned by the twelfth generation descendants.
oBKbY TIL the New York Yankees baseball team began as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, before moving to New York in 1903 where the team was re-named the New York Highlanders. The team was not re-named the Yankees until a decade later in 1913.
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o8mW TIL that Mel Blanc voiced all of the characters of Looney Tunes except for one–Elmer Fudd–though he eventually voiced that character, too