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TIL that in 1909, the US built an Unsinkable “Concrete Battleship” in the Philippines

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M7gKA TIL after US President Wilson had a stroke in 1919, his wife Edith Wilson limited his access to just his doctor and few close associates, and acted as the president's proxy and effectively ran the White House, and by extension the country, by extolling access to the president.
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pY4vZ TIL US states can lower the drinking age but will lose millions of dollars a year in highway repairs if they do, essentially bribing them into keeping it 21.
oRZ7K TIL that the woman from the iconic “Triggered Feminist” meme was actually pretty calm and rational. Her intense-looking facial expression was just a single frame that was paused and deliberately cherry-picked to make her look bad (timestamp 3:20)
LkMYp TIL thanks to the dedicated evaluation by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (a young pharmacologist who had just started working at the Food and Drug Administration), Thalidomide was banned in the USA and worldwide in 1962. The drug caused massive birth defects such as missing ears and flipper limbs.