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TIL Sending your child to daycare costs more than sending them to college in 31 states.

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6woY TIL that the ‘root’ in root beer refers to the roots of the sassafras tree, an ingredient in early root beer recipes.
LQQpr TIL that the Grease was originally a play based on the writer's teen years in Chicago, and the male characters were toughs with Polish surnames. The toughs were made more likeable when the play went to New York and became a musical, and the Polish influence was toned down for the movie.
W7OxN TIL [as of 2023] the United States' most populous city, New York City has a larger population than Los Angeles [2nd] and Chicago [3rd] combined
5YMrR Today I learned about Lord Goddard, a former Lord Chief Justice of England. His clerk claimed that he ejaculated whilst passing a death sentence on such a regular basis, that a fresh pair of trousers had to be brought to court on those occasions.
9Y91G TIL in 1824, a French physicist unknowingly initiated the science of "thermodynamics" outlining the second law and developing the notion of a "reversible process" in nature, when he wrote a book about how to maximize the efficiency of steam engines, at the age of 27