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TIL Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail

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4Z0J TIL that Peter the Great of Russia stood 6'8" tall. The average height at the time (1700s) was 5'4".
gr5DD TIL that men are much more likely to be hit by lightning than women
D1mlj TIL that beer was banned in Iceland until March 1, 1989, which is now celebrated annually as Beer Day. Iceland outlawed all forms of alcohol in 1915, but within 20 years had unbanned all alcoholic beverages except for beer.
JLd1 TIL Nimrod was originally a great hunter in the Book of Genesis. In 1932, when Bugs Bunny called infamously bad hunter Elmer Fudd “nimrod” sarcastically in a Looney Tunes short, people missed the Biblical reference and assumed the word was just a generic insult.
P1ZXO TIL that Harvard boasts 188 billionaire alumni, nearly surpassing the next three schools combined: #2 Stanford (74) #3 Penn (64) and #4 Columbia (53)