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TIL: Town planning was an Olympic event up until 1948

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WrP4 TIL that following Marilyn Monroe’s death, Joe DiMaggio was so devastated he held a private funeral barring all the Hollywood elite, delivered roses to her grave three times a week for over 20 years, never remarried, and his last words were “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”
PYxEn TIL that in the film Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line "Hasta la vista, baby" is dubbed in the European Spanish version as "Sayonara, baby".
M7NPW TIL - The miscarriage rate is higher than people perceive. On average 12.5% of women who know the are pregnant have a miscarriage within the first 23 weeks of pregnancy.
GAej7 TIL that for a couple of years in the twentieth century, Colorado, Mississippi and Texas celebrated Thanksgiving twice a year on the third and fourth Thursdays of November.
oBNQE TIL that in 1948 in the US, pregnant women were not allowed to be teachers in 57% of public school districts because "the sight of pregnant women would unfavorably influence students" and because "pregnant teachers' minds would not be on their work."