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TIL That the woman in the famous Alfred Hitchcock shower scene was Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother

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PY0jG TIL The second largest air force in the world is the U.S. Navy.
XElNX TIL of Bernarr MacFadden (1868 to 1955) a famous publisher who helped popularize body building and urged people to enjoy sex and to avoid processed foods and "pill-pushers".
p8OmO TIL that New Coke, introduced in the 80's, was the formula for Diet Coke with real sugar instead of artificial sweetener.
l7Y1G TIL Doris Miller joined the Navy as a mess assistant, one option for a black man. During the Pearl Harbor attack he saved several lives and successfully manned an anti-aircraft gun with no training, until the ship started to sink. He was killed in 1943. An aircraft carrier is named in his honor.
DB5g TIL that it was Plato who suggested that telling a lie was OK as long as it was for the good of the people. He called it the noble lie.