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TIL: If you have IQ of 69,it indicates intellectual disability

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yQAaw TIL of Albert Cashier a trans man from Clogherhead, Co. Louth, who joined the US military and fought in the civil war. Assigned female at birth, he changed his identity on the boat over and lived the rest of his life as Albert, being buried at 71 with full military honors.
BALd TIL a six-second-long drum break from the late sixties has become the most used sample of music to date, as it helped form the basis for both hip hop and drum and bass music.
jA7p TIL when the American Dairy Association was extending its “Got Milk?” ads into Mexico, the Spanish translation ended up as “Are you lactating?”
kDKd TIL there was a movement post WW2 to make Sicily a US state. There were 40,000 people in Sicily who actively tried to do this, This was due to common family heritage and the fact Sicily was distinct from the rest of Italy.
4kBpo TIL Michael Keaton's breakthrough 1982 movie Night Shift was conceived after producers found a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue