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TIL that “Fancy” ketchup refers to its specific gravity

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YWgW TIL NASA stated that the use of nuclear power saved an average of over 1.8 million lives between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution though reduced coal usage.
OZNa TIL the Haymarket Affair (1886) was a protest over labor and police brutality. It ended in a bombing, police firing into crowds, and the wrongful sentencing of 7 men to death.
JYxwm TIL The only time African troops foughts in North America was in 1863, when an Egyptian battalion fought for Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico against the Mexican Republicans
17B7 TIL that in 1967 israel attacked a US navy research ship killing 34 of its crew.
7oap TIL Eleanor Roosevelt had an aversion to sexual intercourse, and considered it “an ordeal to be endured”