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TIL that “Rosie The Riveter” the woman that appeared in the WWII We Can Do It propaganda posters quit her job after only two weeks as a welder because it was too dangerous.

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0pZ5 TIL that Crossfire on CNN was cancelled shortly after Jon Stewart exposed them when he was invited as a guest.
LQrPZ TIL about the Yule Log, a 1966 TV program that aired a fire place on a loop with Christmas music , as a televised Christmas gift to those residents of New York who lived in apartments and homes without fireplaces, and so the morning news crew can have a day off
l7MDB TIL there is a volcano on Mars that is 2.5 times as tall as Mount Everest and about the diameter of France
7p4Z TIL a band bought $20k worth of their own tickets from ticketmaster and sold them back to fans at face value eating all the ticketmaster extortion fees.
epV4L Today I learned that Heinz invented the word “Ketchup” ~100 years ago; before, it was called “Catsup”