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TIL Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, but the medical community's disinterest kept it from being produced until 1944.

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oBy8A TIL that Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein, who in 1964 posed for Norman Rockwell famous Ruby Bridges painting "The Problem We All Live With", was surprisingly also the “Officer Obie” of Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 hit song “Alice’s Restaurant.”
4X1kw TIL Top 15 Countries by Potato Production (tonnes) - From 1961 to 2018
6EEVw TIL Muon Tomography used to find a new chamber in the Gaza Pyramid was also used by Toshiba and the US Los Alamos Nat. Lab. to assess the situation inside the damaged reactors at Fukushima Daiichi
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E11Qx TIL Looney Tunes was created to promote Warner Brother's music catalog in the 1930s. That's why it's "Tunes" and not "Toons