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TIL that Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post

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78lZ7 TIL Disney produced an educational film in 1946 called The Story of Menstruation that was the first production ever to use the word vagina
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0wgAM TIL: A "hobo" is someone who travels and finds work. A "tramp" travels, but mostly does not work. A "bum" neither travels nor works.
QNlaL TIL that Denim and Jeans come from the phrases "De Nîmes" (from [the French city of] Nîmes) and "Gênes" ([the French name for] Genoa). Jeans exist perhaps from the late middle ages; all Davis and Strauss did was add rivets.