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TIL that the same person won the Republican and Democratic primaries for California governor in 1946

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w6ZJ TIL that Charles Darwin didn’t refer to evolution (“evolve”) in his book, “Origin of Species”, until the very last sentence so that potentially outraged Christians would either lose interest and stop reading before finding it, or be forced to read the evidence first.
nWdE7 TIL the sound pressure levels produced by crying children is between 99-120db, and can cause noise-induced hearing loss in a parental guardian
KOXAQ TIL that the alien in Alien was played by a Nigerian man named Bolaji Badejo. He died of sickle cell anemia in 1992, at the age of 39.
Go5Q TIL that when FDR died in 1945, Harry Truman offered his condolences to Eleanor, asking, “Is there anything I can do for you?” Mrs. Roosevelt responded, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”
Zp5y4 TIL the now derogatory term "spinster", referring either to a woman who is single past the prime age range for marriage or a woman unlikely ever to marry, originated from the 1600s when unmarried women were typically the ones to spin wool. The term was official, used in legal documents.