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TIL In exploring the human gut, scientists have found 741 different bacteria species, and 848 viruses that infect those bacteria, many species completely new

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e0805 TIL Alexandre Dumas's Father Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Was a General For Napoleon Bonaparate. He Was the Highest Ranking Black Army Officer in the World
87w4 TIL When George Lucas was filming the Sandcrawler (in A New Hope) in Tunisia, the Tunisian government asked him to move it away from the Libyan border after Libya threatened military action, thinking it was a large war vehicle.
QDAL TIL that, in 2008, about 30,000 high school students agreed to write “this is Sparta” in their AP exam booklets.
LkRvp TIL in a Dallas speech that was never delivered due to his assassination, JFK noted that "for the first time in history average factory earnings have exceeded $100 a week." In 2020 dollars, that's over $830.
nyZb TIL that Henry Ford was the first industrial giant to give his workers both Saturday and Sunday off, in hope that it would encourage more leisure use of automobiles - and thus popularising the idea of the “weekend”.