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TIL Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day

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VM0W8 TIL In Barcelona, they control the pigeon population by mixing birth control chemicals with the birdseed
6J97 TIL that the call sign “Air Force One” was created in 1954 to avoid confusion, after an incident where a commercial flight and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane carried the same number in the same airspace.
Z85Ro TIL Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to drive overland to the South Pole
nexOo TIL of Phineas Gage, a man who had a large metal rod go completely through his head and destroy his brain’s left frontal lobe. Miraculously he survived, and was able to recover his social skills over time although people noted changes to his personality, behavior, and memory.
EgW57 TIL The 1964 Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer TV special is in a grey area of copyright due to the fact that the studio mistakenly spelled out the copyright date as 1164 in roman numerals and haven't corrected it since