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TIL: 100 years ago a pandemic spread around the globe killing more people in months than any illness in recorded history. In just one year the average life expectancy in America dropped by 12 years.

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wLy9W TIL that the coronavirus has already cost the Corona beer manufacturer £132 million in lost revenue.
D9De TIL Having bridesmaids in a wedding wasn’t originally for moral support. They were “intended to confuse evil spirits or those who wished to harm the bride.”
D1Q6V TIL that one of the main engineers behind NASA's Challenger rocket, which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the night before the launch, "It's going to blow up."
6En7W TIL about Martin Joe Laurello, aka Human Owl and Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head, a German-American man who could turn his head 180 degrees
pEAp TIL that if you have 1 Jewish grandparent you can apply for Israeli citizenship. The same criteria was used by Nazi Germany to determine who was Jewish.