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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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vP0Dx TIL Paul Robeson was an African American lawyer, stage actor (in New York and London), singer, and pro athlete, who won 15 letters in four varsity sports at Rutgers, was elected Phi Beta Kappa and became his class valedictorian after earning a scholarship at age 17 in 1915
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