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TIL that the inclusion of women in clinical research did not become law until 1993.

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aweno TIL that 95% of Paraguayans are mestizos: people of mixed Spanish and Native-American ancestry.
5V98 TIL in Kentucky, there are more barrels of whiskey than people.
JkOj TIL that so many American Indians joined the military during WW2 that had all Americans joined at the same proportion, conscription would not have been necessary. The Blackfeet tribe mocked the idea of a draft: “Since when has it been necessary for Blackfeet to draw lots to fight?”
4X0jo TIL that every then-living ex-President of the United States - Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan - was offered a guest role in The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled. Only Ronald Reagan responded to the offer, politely declining.
W70JN TIL the Low German language is more closely related to English than to Standard German, as Low German and English are classified as North Sea Germanic languages, whereas Standard German is an Elbe Germanic language