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TIL that Four out of five members of Congress continued to drink alcohol during Prohibition

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vPmlr TIL a young Vietnamese woman named Phan Thi Mao was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of the men decided to report the situation, all of the responsible people were convicted but eventually acquitted, this event later became known as the “incident on Hill 192”
kOBN5 TIL Jay-Z released "Glory" on January 9, 2012, a song dedicated to his first child, Blue Ivy Carter. Because Blue's cries were included at the end of the song and she was officially credited on the song as "B.I.C", at two days old she became the youngest person ever to appear on a Billboard chart.
P1E7V TIL the band Sister 7 was originally called “Little Sister. After being threatened with a dispute claim by a band from Boston with the same name, the band changed their name to Sister 7 to reflect that there were 6 other bands with the name “Little Sister”
Y7p9G TIL the youngest sea is the Baltic Sea, at between 10,000 - 15,000 years old.
e0XoJ TIL a babirusa's tusks grow upwards through the skin, curve back, and can get so long they penetrate the babirusa's own skull, killing it.