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TIL John B. Stetson invented the cowboy hat after moving out West to treat his tuberculosis.

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xnn1 TIL: Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair in order to correctly render Merida’s hair in “Brave”.
b6Y4a TIL that Americans spell judgement without the e (judgment)
O9Ne TIL Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”
JY1Vv TIL that accoridng to scientific predictions, the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy within 4 billion years, creating a hybrid galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda".
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