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TIL the phrase "another day, another dollar" comes from construction workers building the Panama Canal, who were paid a dollar a day

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4N0o TIL Tutankhamun’s parents were brother and sister, which led to the young Pharaoh having Koehler’s disease and a club foot, according to new research. This helps to explain the discovery of more than 130 walking sticks in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
yQBrp TIL In 1925 the reporter and public relations executive Dorish Fleischman was the first married woman to be issued a United States passport in her maiden name. Also she was the first woman to report on a boxing match while working for the New York Tribune in the 1910s.
XEMk6 TIL Tokyo has a bar that you can have drinks with penguins.
X0GvX TIL: The bodies of two women were discovered over a year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but they were both actually victims of murder prior to the eruption whose bodies were hidden to the debris and ash.
XEopk TIL Robin Hood was called to be removed from Indiana textbooks for being communist