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TIL 21% of transgender individuals in the US have served in the armed forces.

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1xxV TIL that Alice Wadsworth, President of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, argued in 1917 against granting women the right to vote in part because “It would be an official endorsement of nagging as national policy.”
5WJR TIL that the guitarist on Joe Cocker’s “With A Little Help From My Friends” is Jimmy Page
R7o8w TIL Rowan Atkinson was able to keep a plane in the air whilst waiting for his pilot to regain consciousness from passing out.
Vbw8 TIL that Albania is the first and to date, the only, formally declared atheist nation in the world.
QN7ne TIL that the band Blues Traveler took their name from the demon from Ghostbusters, Gozer the Traveler, who manifested itself as the Stay Puff marshmallow man.