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TIL when Frank Sinatra, age 50, Married Mia Farrow, age 20, Dean Martin laughed and said: “Mia Farrow? I’ve got Scotch older than that girl!”

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6EWKl TIL about the burial of "Shanidar 1," a Neanderthal who lived approximately 45,000 to 35,000 years ago. Despite several injuries and disabilities from early in his life that would have made it impossible to survive on his own, he lived to a relatively old age (40 to 50) with the help of others.
d8bRB TIL in January 1979, Vietnam's army entered Phnom Penh to end the genocide that killed nearly 1/4 of all Cambodians. Shortly after, most of the UN denounced Vietnam and placed it in sanctions
J1Xvv TIL that the idea that caffeine makes you dehydrated is largely a myth
4XX TIL A 16 year old Morocan girl committed suicide after a judge forced her to marry the man who raped her. It was to perserve the honor of her family and for the rapist to avoid prosecution (10-20 years).
eA5J TIL that the age old grammatical ‘rule’ that sentences can not end in prepositions is actually a myth. It began with 17th century writers trying to make English more like Latin, which uses that as a strict rule.