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TIL that the first recorded use of OMG was in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill

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ONRg TIL until a Supreme Court ruling in 1976, women in some states could buy beer at age 18. Men had to wait until 21.
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OoZL4 TIL that in 2007, the hijacking of a Mauritanian flight was thwarted. Over the PA, the pilot instructed the passengers that he was about to make a bumpy landing, and they should attack the hijacker while he was off balance. He said this in French, which the gunman did not speak. The ploy succeeded.
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