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TIL that a 2004 marketing study described Generation X as “the least parented, least nurtured generations in U.S. history.”

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7QaX TIL that in 1999, an aide to the Mayor of Washington DC was fired for using the word “niggardly.”
5BaP TIL after the defeat of Nazi Germany, German civilians were sometimes forced to tour concentration camps and in some cases to exhume mass graves of Nazi victims.
9o0X TIL When Robert Knievel was in jail, his cellmates name was William “Awful” Knofel. When the the jailer went to check on them he stated “Well look who we have here, Awful Knofel and Evil Knievel.” Thus the legend of Evel Knievel was born.
GAXD4 TIL Dobro resonator guitars; with large metallic, sound plates, are much louder. All metal-body resonator guitars inspired Paul Simon's Going to Graceland line, "The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar." David Gilmour's Dobro sold for a record (no pun intended) $112,500. in 1979.
9Yg5p TIL Proof that Female Ejaculation is Just Pee