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TIL that in the days after 9/11 Walmart purchased all available stock of American flags gaining a monopoly on the market.

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Pd7g TIL that before the Washington Monument was completed, the tallest structure in the US was the 234 foot tall Phoenix Shot Tower, where molten lead was dropped from a platform at the top of the tower through a sieve into a vat of cold water at the bottom, forming perfect spheres of shot.
4K6o TIL Lego Minifigures will outnumber humans by the year 2019.
0xpy TIL the sole difference between a honey bee worker and a queen bee is in nourishment during the maturation process. Queen bees get feed royal jelly their entire life while worker bees only get royal jelly the first two days of their larval stage.
M7R4K TIL that in 2005 The Journal of Clinical Investigation published an article titled "Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible" because of "reckless" comments made by Cruise where he stated that psychiatry is a "quack" field and postpartum depression is pharmacologically untreatable.
l71KK TIL that in 1609, explorer Henry Hudson and his crew became the first Englishmen to visit Manhattan Island. The day? September 11.