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TIL in 1906, Teddy Roosevelt became the first sitting US President to make a foreign trip when he visited the Panama Canal

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Av8o TIL movies prospered without popcorn until the Great Depression, when theater owners scrambled to make up for reduced ticket prices by turning to “audible edibles.” From 1934 to 1940, the nation’s annual popcorn harvest grew from 5 million to 100 million pounds.
W79Ao TIL that in 2021, before a Quebec City family-run shoe store closed, which had operated since 1936, a hidden door was found behind a shelving unit. Upon opening the door, the family discovered rows and rows of boxes of shoes that were manufactured sometime around the 1960s.
wL9dM TIL In 1997, an American co., RiceTec obtained a patent for a strain of rice never historically grown in America — “Basmati”. They achieved this by crossbreeding India’s native plant with a US long rice variety & then claimed exclusive rights over any basmati hybrid grown in the western hemisphere.
p8MoG TIL that mooning is legal and in fact protected under the First Ammendment in the USA
jZQa TIL Siamese cats are partial Albinos. The gradual shading of the extremities is caused by a recessive gene with temperature-sensitive expression. As they age, the Spots can get darker the colder it is, but if keep in an evironment that is 98f or wamer they would stay pure white.