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TIL two esteemed scientists suspected time traveling culprits to be sabotaging mankind’s discovery of the Higgs boson.

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jdXv TIL that West African countries supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa market, using child labor, and in some cases slavery , to supply international giants such as Hershey’s, Mars and Nestlé .
Q77E TIL baby male monkeys prefer to play with trucks and baby female monkeys prefer to play with dolls, indicating a biological predisposition towards these gender stereotypes
W7Xj8 TIL In 1937 the city of Vancouver banned white women from working in Chinese-owned restaurants because Chinese bachelor men were viewed by white Vancouverites as a threat to white women
8grK TIL that dalmatians used to run alongside horse drawn firetrucks acting as a barking siren to clear crowds, thus their positive reputations with firefighters
rNNRM TIL of Commander James H. Ward, the first US Naval officer to be killed in the American Civil War. A destroyer named after him fired the first American shots of the Pacific Theater in WW2, sinking a Japanese submarine. Actor Andy Devine is his great-grandson.