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TIL In 2022, with 38.7 Million Readers, AARP The Magazine Remains America’s Most-Read Magazine for the 5th Consecutive Year

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9YG6B TIL that a Nazi Kriegsmarine cat later became a Royal Navy cat, and survived the sinking of THREE ships in total, two of them being among the most celebrated vessels of the entire conflict. Retired to Belfast and died aged 14.
e8ng TIL Andreas Krieger, an East German athlete was unknowingly given so many steroids by officials for years that she had to eventually become a trans man.
B5Yy TIL Abraham Lincoln once told a speech so powerful and intriguing that all the reporters simply forgot to take notes and the contents of Lincoln’s speech remains unknown.
p8Adb TIL Studies have shown that babies begin to cry silently in the womb at as early as 28 weeks, the findings where stumbled upon while researching the effects of tobacco and cocaine on pregnancy for another purpose.
Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October