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TIL that women’s extremities, like hands and feet, tend to run colder than men’s extremities.

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X0YKR TIL about Morris Abraham Cohen (born Moszek Abram Miączyn; 3 August 1887 – 7 September 1970), better known as Two-Gun Cohen, a Polish-born British and Canadian adventurer of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army.
5Ybxk TIL that, when Don Cheadle was first offered the role of War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he was told he only had an hour to decide on the 12-year commitment. When Cheadle responded that he was at his kid's birthday party, the Marvel rep said, "Oh! Oh, take two hours."
xVZY7 TIL that in 1979 the Soviets tried to poison the Afghan president but it didn't work because he drank Coca-Cola, which carbonation diluted the poison.
X8KR TIL That the reason the suffix ‘gate’ is tacked on to every scandal is because of William Safire, a speechwriter for Nixon and a political commentator at the NYT, who began affixing all scandals with -gate in the belief it would make his boss’s crimes seem less severe in the light of history
Po5n TIL that after Kanye West’s mother’s death due to heart problems resulting from her cosmetic surgery, Governor Schwarzenegger signed the “Donda West Law” legislation making it mandatory to prove well being prior to undergoing cosmetic surgery.