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TIL “Millions Of Cats” by Wanda Gág Is the oldest american picture book still in print.

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EeLP TIL PBS painter Bob Ross become a star in Japan after a dubbed version of his show started airing twice a day there. When he visited Japan he was mobbed with massive fans.
JYjnl TIL about a town in Pennsylvania named Phoenixville that celebrates their town every year by burning down a giant wooden bird.
R7e5a TIL that vanilla Ice cream was not the first ice cream flavour invented. It would have been a fruit flavour!
wkaE TIL that ravens are the only birds to reconcile with members of their own species after fights to avoid future conflict
N7GKb TIL For centuries Romans preserved a primitive house from early Roman settlements that was the reputed house of Romulus, legendary founder and first King of Rome.