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TIL: Ben Franklin attempted to abolish slavery in 1790

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vP6gD TIL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Was Distributed Through a Mafia-Owned Film Company
L7jd TIL President Harding died as one of the most popular presidents. Subsequent revelations caused him to be judged as one of the worst
xv7o TIL when Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd read in a newspaper that a family was killed because of a faulty seal in their refrigerator (with toxic ammonia),they decided that they would invent a refrigerator without moving parts,hence no seals. This became the Einstein-Szilard refrigerator
gyO9 TIL there is a 99.26% correlation (r=0.992558) between divorce rates in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine.
XEGOX TIL in 1933 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put a Limit of $1 million on personal wealth. In the wake of the Great Depression many Americans developed more socialist values and believed personal wealth should be limited to avoid such an issue from happening again.