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TIL The last King of France fought in the American Civil War

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O5L1 TIL that the Holland Tunnel’s ventilation system changes out all of the air in its 2 tubes (about 3 miles’ worth) every 90 seconds.
xxj0 TIL that ‘Mad Men’ understated its depiction of drinking, smoking, and sex in 1960s Manhattan. Advertising veteran Jerry Della Femina said that “Three-martini lunches were the norm … The only thing that saved us was that the clients and agencies that we were going back to drank as much as we did”.
pYYwe TIL the 9 months of pregnancy does not begin at conception. It begins on the first day of a woman’s last menstrual period.
yyXV TIL that in professional shooting, alcohol is actually considered to be a performance enhancing drug because shooters can drink it to relax themselves and slow their heart rate to give them an edge.
x6nV0 TIL Sonia Gandhi, the longest serving leader of the Indian National Congress was a white woman born in Italy.