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TIL Louis Armstrong signed his letters, “Red beans and ricely yours…”

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j6VPX TIL Robert Oppenheimer thought highly of physicist Hans Bethe and chose him to head the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos. After the War, Bethe declined to participate in developing thermonuclear weapons as he believed that the world would not be worth preserving after a war with such weapons
LDY0 TIL that until 2001 Disney required employees dressed as characters to share communal underwear
V6Bm TIL: North Korea claims to have sunk the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore and even preserved the ship that “sunk it” in a museum. The USS Baltimore was never deployed to Korea and was scrapped in 1972.
gJlb TIL the Dung Beetle is the only known insect that uses the Milky Way as a reference to moving in a straight line despite not being able to see individual stars. Scientists initially thought they were using the moon, however, they still moved in a straight line on moonless nights.
0MPp TIL It used to be patriotic to grow cannabis in America. In 1619 farmers in the 13 colonies were required to grow 100 cannabis plants by law.Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned Cannabis farms.