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TIL that ‘Mad Men’ understated its depiction of drinking, smoking, and sex in 1960s Manhattan. Advertising veteran Jerry Della Femina said that “Three-martini lunches were the norm … The only thing that saved us was that the clients and agencies that we were going back to drank as much as we did”.

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d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
kOAoe TIL "petface" dogs with puppy-like features have juvenile traits systematically built into their DNA through centuries of rigorous breeding. Many of the same traits that make these dogs "cute" give them a predisposition to respiratory disorders, skin conditions, reproductive issues and eye injuries
PRpn TIL That Arnold Schwarzenegger was the reason AMC made a civilian version of the Hummer and he bought the first one off the assembly line in 92’
rxdd TIL an original meaning behind the term “Hipster” was for people who laid on their sides in Opium dens.
mx0Op TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings from 1937 to 1949, and that it wasn't published until 1955; in other words, it took 18 years for it to be completed and published.