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TIL In 1901, Teddy Roosevelt presented his “Controlling the Trusts” speech to Congress shortly after taking the reins as President. In the speech, he asked Congress to curb the corporation’s power to “within reasonable limits”.

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M77Y8 TIL Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, who played the parents on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," were born on the exact same date - June 21, 1947.
0d5AL TIL about Mats Järlström, a man who was fined for engineering in Oregon when he challenged the traffic light timing. He eventually won against Oregon’s 'Title Laws' and was proven right about the traffic light timing being too short for safety.
vPYQr TIL Many formulas exist for Wind Chill. The current one was only implemented in 2001. It is calculated for a bare face, facing the wind, while walking into it at 5.0 km/h/3.1 mph. It corrects the officially measured wind speed to the wind speed at face height, assuming the person is in an open field
8r7V TIL of the Halcyon, a $2500, LaserDisc-based video game console from 1985. It was entirely voice-activated, and the manufacturer claimed it was as ‘intelligent’ as the HAL 9000. It never saw commercial release, and fewer than a dozen still exist.
BgaEK TIL Pan-Am's first Round-the-World flight was unplanned. The flight's return journey via Hawaii was cancelled after Pearl Harbor was attacked, and with the help of Auckland's library system, a route was plotted to return to America via Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Congo, and Brazil.