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TIL that plus-size models were first represented by modelling agencies in the 1970s

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V8yp TIL though alchemists never succeeded in transmuting lead to gold, in 1981 physicists used the particle accelerator at Berkeley to shoot Carbon nuclei at thin foils of Bismuth- the resulting collisions did produced a tiny amount of Gold atoms
rNYe0 TIL that One Piece is the 2nd highest selling comic book of all time. It’s outsold X Men, Spider-Man and Batman to achieve this goal.
D1pVV TIL- In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history.
yQjEp TIL Barbie was based on a 1940's comic strip about a buxom gold digging escort named Lili. Mattel copied the design from a adult novelty toy version of the character.
4Xo15 TIL that Ring Around the Rosie is a song about bubonic plague (black death) from England.. and it used be “and we all fall dead” but they omitted ‘dead’