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TIL the US temporarily had universal child care during World War II to support working mothers. In 1971, Congress passed a bill that would have provided it permanently, only to have it vetoed by Richard Nixon at the urging of Pat Buchanan.

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m15LM TIL in 2011, a Korean sect known as “Good News Mission” scammed around 400 teachers with a recruitment scheme to teach English in Mexico that were really lectures where the guests were forced by guards to engage in a ballroom and were subjected to physical punishment for things such as tardiness.
nZ7 TIL Lt. Worf was originally supposed to be a very minor character.
vA54 TIL that we are losing language at an unprecedented rate. It is estimated that within the next 100 years, 80% of all currently spoken languages will be extinct
x6eAD TIL: When someone with a bone marrow transplant takes a DNA/ethnicity test, their results typically include the results of their donor. This is called genetic chimerism.
AN7ma Today I learned that, before 1960, diving boards were usually 3 meters high or 6 meters high, rather than 1 meter high or 3 meters high like today.