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TIL Karl Rove dropped out of college 4 times
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TIL the poem "30 days hath September" dates back to at least the 1400s. It's technically older than the Gregorian calendar we use today.
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TIL that relative to other animals humans are born prematurely and thus can be "socialized to a far greater extent than any other animal". Human babies are highly dependent for YEARS on adults (vs. e.g., kitten leaving mother weeks after birth) and thus can be taught/nurtured for better or worse.
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TIL that George V was euthanised by his personal physician to ensure the morning papers had the news
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TIL that vanilla Ice cream was not the first ice cream flavour invented. It would have been a fruit flavour!
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TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent.