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TIL that while men seen the average woman as average looking, women see the average man as below average

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7rVXM TIL that the decision to remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten-dollar bill was reversed due to the popularity of the musical, Hamilton.
OaWY TIL that originally due to the positioning of the fuel tank in the Ford Model T, the car was unable to climb steep hills on low fuel as the fuel could not reach the engine. The solution was to drive up steep hills in reverse.
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
woNL1 TIL although he popularized the term “Second World War” throughout 1941, by 1942 FDR pushed for a different name for the war, and asked the public for ideas. He himself preferred the name “The Survival War.”
Q1Dk TIL a master impersonator and identity thief with no medical training, imperonsated a surgeon on board a ship, read some text books and performed life saving surgery on wounded soldiers.