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TIL- After US President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke in October of 1919, his second wife, Edith, de facto ran the Executive Branch of the government for the remainder of his second term.

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9w4o6 TIL Patagonia has a separate business arm that sells gear to the US Government
gMe87 TIL that Pecorino Cheese is sheep cheese—Pecorino in Italian means "ovine" or "of sheep"
rRvVe TIL the Mayans customized their teeth. They would carve holes into their teeth and fill the spaces with different stone inlays. They used minerals like jadeite, hematite, pyrite and turquoise. The stones also had specific meanings as jade may have symbolized pure breath or elegant speech.
6EnaY TIL that in 2004, Iran allowed Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to be released in the country because it contained several uses of the word "Bismillah", which means "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in Arabic.
jNnJM TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.