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TIL the First Saint Patrick's Day Parade was held in America in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida.

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W7Rb9 TIL that NASA engineers use a “chicken gun” to test the durability of airplane windshields. They fire dead chickens at high speeds to simulate bird strikes during flight. It sounds ridiculous, but it's a crucial safety measure!
VBwbD TIL Studies show that the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country
R7Xl9 TIL Adolf Hitler employed 15 women to act as food testers, checking his food for poison.
5VXoR TIL Mountain Dew was invented by Barney and Ally Hartman to be used as a whiskey mix as they couldn't purchase their favorite lemon-lime mixer in Knoxville, TN.
YpOxW TIL the reason why refrigerators are magnetized. Until the Refrigerator Safety Act in 1956 refrigerators could only open from the outside and many children died from getting trapped inside them.