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TIL that 25% of US Presidents were raised without a father.

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VGnZ TIL scientists asked people to guess who won senator/governor elections (involving candidates they knew NOTHING about) by simply looking at pictures of the candidates faces. The people guessing got it right 70% of the time.
e7pJ TIL that in 1937, MGM covered up the brutal rape of dancer Patricia Douglas and ruined her reputation and her life
yBap TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers’ Party (PPPP) won 16 seats in the Sejm with 2.97% of the vote in the first free parliamentary elections in 1991, before disintegrating into Large Beer and Small Beer factions despite party president Rewiński’s claims that “beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty.”
W7kl8 TIL that Bob Marley shared his royalties with a soup kitchen so it would be able to stay open
D1ddp TIL an airplane losing an engine is considered to be a fairly inconsequential issue, and will not affect the plane’s ability to take off, fly or land.