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TIL that emergency contraceptive pills aren’t abortifacients in any way you would define a start of pregnancy

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gRy7 TIL That when Napoleon was asked whether he wanted to be God, He thought it over and replied, ‘No, it’s a dead-end job.’
Yp8nZ TIL about British Double Summer Time. During WW2, after moving an hour forward for DST in 1940, they didn’t roll back in fall. They moved forward again in spring of ‘41, resulting in being 2 hours ahead. It helped people finish their day and get home with some extra light during enforced blackouts.
E1J9o TIL that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves living in Tennessee (or any other state under Union control).
dN1d TIL that the leading zipper brand, YKK, was fined $150 million euros for running not one, but four zipper price-fixing cartels.
Eg9kx TIL of the Jefferson Bible, a de-miracalised version of the gospels created by Thomas Jefferson — that just had the morals and life of Jesus Christ. A copy was presented to new members of Congress from 1904 until the 1950s.