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TIL After Polio started spreading, swimming pools and movie theaters were closed every summer for forty years.

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o7YL TIL that when a young girl was invited to meet President Coolidge, someone made a bet against her claiming that it was impossible for the president to say more than two words to her. When the girl told the president about the bet, President Coolidge responded, “You lose.”
WklKA TIL that Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady in the Brady Bunch, also played the matriarch of a crime family in the ultraviolent Blue Ruin.
KYOrE TIL Percy Spencer,the inventor of the microwave appliance received only $2 for his discovery
Bg4vD TIL that many English men sold their wives in public auctions from the late 17th Century until the early 1900s. The practice was considered easier than obtaining a divorce...
yQxAp TIL the “Crescent Moon” on the South Carolina flag isn’t a moon at all, but a gorget, worn by military in 1775 to protect the neck in battle.