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TIL Edward Jenner, the father of the smallpox vaccine, proved that swifts don’t hibernate in lakes by holding one underwater for two minutes. It drowned.

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DOxJ TIL that the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain practiced segregation until 2004, when the U.S. Justice Department forced them to stop.
QJAX TIL that the HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA video is a part of a longer video, and that the actual video only has 315,000 views, while the version with just the song has over 20 million, and the version that’s a 5-hour loop has over 9 million.
p8LKN TIL about Tennis for Two, a 1958 video game played on an oscilloscope invented by a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory for a public exhibition. Largely forgotten until patent litigation in the 1970s, it was the first video game developed purely for entertainment.
b9w0N TIL: Americans never 'lost' their British accents. It was the Brits that adopted 'posh' in the early 1800s. American port cities emulated it for a while.
pYR0A TIL the origin of "32 skidoo"; attn super fans of Bob's Burgers. If you recall that episode with the birthday party with the old timee theme and the over the top parents, you're in luck, found the sauce. PBS documentary, "Fly with Me" at the 46:06 mark. Phrase refers to forced retirement at 32