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TIL That Bosnia and Herzegovina is a semi-viceroy. They have a “High Representative” that can change laws and override the country’s presidents. This power is actually used

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VBG6k TIL the phrase "neither rhyme nor reason" is from Edmund Spenser. Elizabeth I told her treasurer to pay Spenser "what is reason." Edmund wasn't paid, and wrote "I was promis'd on a time,\To have a reason for my rhyme:\From that time unto this season,\I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason." He got paid.
QNgDp TIL that during WWII workers at the Henry Ford aircraft factory Willow Run built a staggering 8,685 B-24 bombers in three years. No one had ever manufactured airplanes on such a scale before. At its peak in 1944, it produced a B-24 every hour.
kO785 TIL that people who are around roaches often develop allergies, and thus can't drink pre-ground coffee as it contains ground roaches
rRLl4 TIL: Rodin's famous sculpture of Balzac was so controversial when it was first exhibited in 1898 that vendors in Paris sold parodies of the work, including this one of Balzac as a seal.
KOm0G TIL that the psychology of color plays a massive role in the soft drink industry’s beverage color selection