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TIL despite millennials often being seen as a ‘promiscuous’ generation, they have less sexual partners than previous generations and having less overall sex than their own parents.

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nelnG TIL that there is a math competition for undergrad students that is so hard that in 2014 the median score was 1/120
X8DE TIL that in Star Wars legends, Jar Jar Binks was given a father, named George R Binks, who was so ashamed of his son that he attempted suicide. In order to talk him down, his wife told him to think of his son. He then pulled the trigger
W70mL TIL that Eisenhower called President Kennedy's race to the moon "nuts" in 1963. A New York Times editorial stated that the total cost for a moon landing could build "a Harvard University for every state"
a8WnA TIL in June 1942, Japan launched an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, marking the only military campaign of WWII to take place in North America
d8NQZ TIL the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts) was the last US Cavalary regiment to engage in horse mounted warfare. They operated well into WW2 and even once repulsed a Japanese Tank Assault at Binalonan, Pangasinan