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TIL measles resets your immune system leaving you more vulnerable to disease you had immunity to

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rRZNy TIL Frank Sinatra was an avid supporter of civil rights. He was a generous financial supporter of Martin Luther King Jr, and was recruited by him to join the civil rights marches in the south. He would go on to receive a lifetime award from the NAACP.
Z8PjB TIL about Boston Marriage, a cohabitation of two wealthy women, independent of financial support from a man. There is also a Wellesley Marriage, where the relationship involved two academic women. Some of these relationships were romantic, but others were not.
rYPo TIL that before coffee became popular, beer was the most popular drink to go with breakfast in the USA.
NZx6 TIL the company that owned the World Trade Center had scheduled a meeting for 9/11/2001 on the 88th floor of tower 1 to discuss what to do in the event of a terrorist attack, but rescheduled the night before because someone couldn’t attend.
0d71R TIL unsolved murders aren't an occasional thing in the US, only around half of murders were solved in the past few years (even fewer are solved in some big cities)