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TIL President Eisenhower predicted Holocaust Deniers, so he ordered pictures be taken of concentration camps.

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EgOEo TIL about transgenerational obesogens - substances which when consumed by pregnant people, will have lifelong effects of predisposing that future child to obesity by altering adipogenesis
LRLv TIL that the word “boycott” comes from 1880, when the Irish Land League refused to do business with a rent collector named Charles Boycott.
epm0E TIL the UK is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned the capability to launch satellites into space. The Black Arrow rocket launched the Prospero satellite into orbit from Australia in Oct 1971. The project was cancelled that same year due to cost.
grXKA TIL of His Imperial Majesty Norton I., Emperor of the United States. In 1859, He delivered a proclamation to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin declared himself emperor. They indulged him, starting his 21 year reign.
jR0p TIL that the Confederacy planned to conquer Latin America after a Southern victory in the Civil War.