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TIL In the Simpsons, when Maggie is scanned in the check-out, the original price is $847.63 which was the monthly cost of raising a baby in America.

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VMRyQ TIL John D Rockefeller Jr was forced to testify to the Commission of Industrial Relations for his role in (and blamed in the media for masterminding) the 1913 Ludlow Massacre where 21 people including women and children were killed in an attack on a camp of striking coal workers.
X0XRE TIL Abraham Lincoln once said "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races"
Qpxp TIL: the birth certificate was invented as a way to verify people’s ages in order to enforce new child labor restrictions
jNj4X TIL Japanese researchers have created a fire-alarm for the deaf. It’s a gadget that emits a wasabi mist which will wake the endangered person and get them out of the building alive!
8aWYL TIL Ming China placed limits on how frequently its client states could offer tribute. This was because Ming China always provided a return gift whenever they received tribute, which would often be of greater value than the tribute received.