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TIL blue rasberry was created by ice pop companies because the original raspberry coloring was banned by the FDA

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kj7d TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
M7eB TIL the military shout “HOOAH” is actually “HUA” meaning “Heard, Understood, Acknowledged”.
oBGN8 TIL Diana Serra Cary, aka Baby Peggy, was one of the last living film stars of the Silent Era of Hollywood until her death in Feb 2020, working 8 hours a day 6 days a week as a child star. She later became a silent film historian and advocate for child actors' rights.
MeBdm TIL: Loofahs don’t come from the sea. They’re gourds!
wLrA7 Today i learned that the first 3d printer was created 40 years ago in 1980