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TIL The Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables

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QNeya TIL The US military wasn’t allowed to invade North Vietnam. Resulting in the use of an extreme amount of heavy bombing as effectively the only way to attack the North’s forces within the North.
dDmOZ TIL how human started to celebrate New Year. The earliest recorded festivities date back 4,000 years to ancient Babylon. Later Caesar instituted January 1st as the first day of the year to honor Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.
xVYO5 TIL that the CT scanner was invented by an electrical engineer working for EMI, the record company that signed the Beatles. His name was Godfrey Hounsfield and he performed the first CT in history by scanning his own brain.
OaMg TIL In 1893 an amendment was proposed to rename the US to the United States of Earth.
wLnlE TIL Warner Bros cancelled Home Alone because they didn't want to spend $14,7 million on it. 21st Century Fox continued the production and the film grossed $476 millions worldwide.