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TIL the stormtroopers in Star Wars are left-handed

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J19ml TIL that the dutch word for nephew is the same for cousin
gMbRy TIL that actress and comedian Katherine Ryan got fired from a college job at Hooters because she wrote "club sandwiches not seals" on the lunch board
ADVYd TIL about the Ideal Maternity Home, a maternity home that opened in 1928 and scammed young women, forcing them to pay $500 each for their stay, then either killing their newborns through medical negligence or selling them for up to $10k per baby. It was closed down in 1947
p8mO4 TIL Roughly 2% of the U.S. population, an estimated 620,000 men, died serving in the American Civil War. As a percentage of today's population the toll would have risen as high as 6 million. For every 3 soldiers killed in battle, 5 more died of disease.
NDWE TIL after President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke in Oct. 1919 his wife (Edith Wilson) began to screen all matters of state and decided which to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she de facto ran the executive branch of the government for the remainder of Wilson’s second term.