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TIL of the "Returning Soldier Effect" where more male babies than female babies were born after both World Wars in almost all belligerent countries. Reason: unknown.

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nW4A9 TIL about the Index Thomisticus, a 34 year long project beginning in 1946 to make a machine readable concordance of the works of Thomas Aquinas, that required manually recording 10,631,980 Latin words onto punched cards and took a total of 1 million hours of human work to complete
OoPDg TIL Ounce by ounce, Nutritious food costs up to 10 times more than junk food.
X0AvP TIL that Gatorade is similar in composition to a medical rehydration solution.
QDmM TIL Ray and Edith Batman sued the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the USA in 1951, leading to the humorous case title ‘Batman v. Commissioner’
xRM5 TIL Eazy-E, former rapper and N.W.A member was not buried in a suit and tie, but instead a flannel shirt, jeans and a Compton cap, reminiscent of what he wore