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TIL Yao Ming was a chemically engineered propaganda experiment that went well.

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41kJ TIL a fire hydrant in San Francisco that survived the 1906 earthquake and aided fire fighters in saving the Mission district was painted gold in memory of the event.
4y7J TIL that the word “legend” originally meant “things to be read”. In the pre-Medieval period, reading and writing were very rare, and so anything worthy of being written down was something very noteworthy, and thus “legendary”; worthy of being written down and read.
9YArm TIL Milton Bradley, of board game fame, was an early advocate for kindergarten in the USA. He produced a line of art supplies that became standard classroom materials, and he published multiple books and newsletters about early childhood education.
P11nG TIL that some Fish give birth through their mouths
DQeYp TIL that all tortoises are turtles and they share the same Order, Testudines, under the Class Reptilia