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TIL 17-year-old JFK was admitted to Harvard with a 5-sentence-long essay.

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p8N1e TIL the quirks in the French numerical system ("four-twenty-ten-nine") are a legacy of the base 20 numerical system used by the Celtics. The hybridization with the base 10 system came with the Roman conquest of the Gaul.
DQEEe TIL pigeons, both male and female, produce milk
epWGL TIL that Judy Garland, star of ‘The Pirate’, missed 99 of the 135 days of rehearsals and filming, only showing up for 36 days.
Jkn1 TIL: Women were not allowed to wear trousers on the US Senate floor until 1993 when two senators defied the ban. Later that year the rule was amended to allow women to wear trousers.
Eg5mw TIL - The German language expanded because people began speaking differently due to a consonant shift, a phonological development that makes people pronounce consonants differently.