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TIL that all U.S. Treasurers since 1949 have been women.

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wLnE8 TIL of the Judgment of Paris. Before 1976, American wine had a terrible reputation internationally until an event where Stag's Leap, an American winery, won first place against French wines. In 2006 the same vintages were re-tasted and Stag’s Leap beat all French wines and took 2nd place.
4XR6 TIL In 1978 the Mormon church “amended” their religion to allow Blacks to be priests
g6JW TIL that many members of the infamous Japanese research Unit 731, who conducted human experiments on thousands of people in WWII, were granted immunity by the United States and were never convicted once the results of their experiments were handed over.
ANZRa TIL That in 2004, a 25 year old virginal Japanese woman had surgery to remove a mature fetiform teratoma (a tumor that formed a doll-like structure) that contained brain, eye, spinal nerve, ear, teeth, thyroid gland, bone, bone marrow, gut, trachea, and blood vessel tissue... and more. 😳
Zn7G TIL that the lead guitarist from the band Queen, Brian May, attained his PhD in 2005 in astrophysics, was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013, and worked with NASA on its New Horizons Pluto mission