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TIL a baby born while a war is going on is more likely to be male

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Y7BZx TIL That 1791 people purposefully began drinking unsweetened tea as a way to protest slavery in the British empire
Pmoe TIL That when Marjorie Gross, writer for Seinfeld (and others) was dying of Ovarian Cancer, she found humor in her imminent death by joking that she wanted to hold on until November 1996 so that she wouldn’t be reincarnated as Madonna’s child as she was pregnant at the time.
m7EM TIL Marilyn Monroe was really good friends with Ella Fitzgerald. Monroe was instrumental in getting Ella past racial barriers to perform and they stayed friend till death.
GlJG TIL In 1943 a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers’ coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised “Irish Coffee,” creating the now-famous cocktail.
4baX TIL Alan Turing, the father of the computer, ran a 2.46 marathon, only 11 minutes slower than that year’s olympic gold medal time