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TIL smoking crack while pregnant has far less of an effect on the outcome of offspring born full-term, than being born in poverty does.

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x6a9g TIL of the United States military training film A Welcome to Britain. Released in 1943, it educated GI’s about the less ethnically segregated UK and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.
l7M7G TIL Ulysses S. Grant presidency's historical assessment and reputation suffered considerably due to the "Lost Cause" myth spread by Confederate sympathizers around the turn of the 20th century, before starting to recover in the 21st century.
9YbXX TIL that German expertise was critical for Saddam Hussein's development of chemical weapons. For a decade Germans built facilities, factories, and sold 1,027 ton of precursors for mustard gas and sarin. 52% of Iraqi CW equipment had German origin and equated to 150 ton mustard gas and 60 ton Tabun.
j6e6X TIL: The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia was originally named after a botanist (Fuchs) but renamed Magenta to celebrate a battle victory.
eKOD TIL There is a medical condition called Exploding Head Syndrome, which causes people to experience a sudden feeling of explosion and blinding light inside their head moments before falling to sleep.