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TIL that newborn baby girls can experience a "mini-period" due to the withdrawal from their mother's estrogen

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16MDW TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.
VMjp0 TIL Mr. Goodbar was created in response to the Great Depression. It was marketed as a "meal replacement bar" for lunch and allowed the Hershey company to be one of the only major companies to not lay off a single employee.
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
waro TIL That actor Ron Perlman smokes 4 cigars a day, mostly to calm himself. He says: “Some people meditate, I smoke cigars. It’s the best way for me to find myself. Smoking a cigar stops my hands from shaking. Smoking a cigar prevents me from punching people in the face when they get on my nerves.“
75yM TIL that when King William II of England was ‘accidentally’ shot through the lung with an arrow, his body was abandoned by the nobles, found by a peasant and returned to Winchester Cathedral by farmers.