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TIL the first major labor strike in the US was organized by 102 women at a textile mill in Rhode Island.

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m1p5M TIL a gas cloud in space has been discovered with alcohol, enough to produce 400 trillion pints of beer.
xVJrD TIL about Pfeilstörche, storks who appeared in Europe with arrows stuck in their bodies. The arrows were from African hunters, providing proof of migration.
0dwyN TIL that Nicholas Cage’s uncle is Francis Ford Coppola and he denied Cage a role in The Godfather Part III
7oPb TIL in negotiations to sell, one of Reddit’s founders “determined to be a hard-negotiating 22-year-old, told Conde Nast that it couldn’t buy Reddit unless the founders each got $1 million.” He later said “A million dollars isn’t as much as I thought it was.”
pYvEN TIL In the 60s/60s NASA would use brooms to detect flames from Hydrogen leaks as they were odorless & colorless.