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TIL that more than half the drop in America’s total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children

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kO7K1 TIL that Helen Keller's family forbade her from marrying her fiancé, Peter Fagan, an ex-newspaper reporter who was working as her secretary, because of her disabilities. And society of her time believed women with disabilities shouldn't experience romance of any kind.
Eg0Md TIL Mel Gibson was an executive producer and episode director of the 2004 ABC multi-camera sitcom, Complete Savages.
O667 TIL that 18 years after being shot, 91 of the 220 cast and crew of The Conqueror had cancer and 46 had died including John Wayne, due to the fact that the film was shot on nuclear weapons testing ground in Nevada.
VMWd8 TIL Dean Mahomed introduced Indian cuisine and shampoo baths to Europe, where he offered therapeutic massage. He was also the first Indian to publish a book in English
Y65B TIL that Sweden has the Easter Wizard and not the Easter Bunny, due to a language misunderstanding