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TIL that the term pumpernickel translates into the devil’s fart

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JdO1 TIL, in the early 1900s engineers actually reversed the Chicago River’s flow. It still flows in the opposite direction.
kJxke Today I Learned Potato blight that sparked Great Famine appeared in US two years before
gMXyX TIL that Rick James and Neil Young were roommates and bandmates in the mid 60s.
yVBVa TIL that Sweden switched from driving on the left side to the right side on 3 September 1967 and that day is called Dagen H or H Day and it was by far largest logistical event in Swedens history.
7rvrx TIL one year of fossil-fueled space rocket launches creates as much black carbon as the global aviation industry in the same period.