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TIL people struggled to open milk cartons in the 70’s

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Z8ybD TIL that in 1862 President Lincoln had to politely decline an offer from the king of Siam to send the United States a herd of elephants for use in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
NPe6 TIL: The Germans call tramp stamps “Arschgeweih” or literally, ass antlers.
XE6VQ TIL that a synthetic version of horseshoe crab blood has existed for 15 years and that the practice of bleeding horseshoe crabs alive by the pharmaceutical industry is outdated and unnecessary. Some companies are beginning to commit to the humane synthetic alternative.
oB04o TIL The ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma was evacuated in 2009. The town was the center of a massive lead and zinc mining complex; the Army Corps of Engineers declared in 2006 that 86% of the town's structures were so undermined that they were in imminent danger of collapse.
a8A8J TIL the pilot episode of LOST was the most expensive pilot episode in TV history at the time. The network president who greenlit the pilot was fired for greenlighting such an expensive episode