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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt advocated women’s suffrage in his senior thesis (1880) making one of his professors say he was too influenced by feeling to be entirely masculine

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JWkB TIL in 1936, 30 Toronto men were arrested for removing the tops from their bathing suits and showing their nipples
M7KmV TIL “Wild Horses” written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards was originally recorded by a band called “The Flying Burrito Bros.”
x6KE7 TIL in WW2, when Germans captured a British bomber tail gunner who claimed that he had jumped out of his plane at 5500m without a parachute, they investigated and confirmed his claim and gave him a certificate to confirm his story.
9OL6 TIL Humans almost became extinct in 70,000 BC after a supervolcano erupted and sent 650 miles of earth into the air, dropping the population to as low as 40 breeding couples.
NK91 TIL that a town called Sweetwater, Texas, as well as most of the Southeast, hold a form of a rattlesnake holocaust each year and have been doing so since about 1939.