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TIL GDP was invented just 86 years ago.

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Me1dA TIL that Homework was considered hugely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900s, when physicians crusaded against it, in 1901, California even banned homework for anyone under the age of 15
W7y48 TIL that blackcurrants were once grown in the U.S. until their growth was restricted in 1911. The restriction was to protect pine trees from blister rust fungus, which use the plant as a host.
ZpK5p TIL what an allision is (colliding with a stationary object)
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a8xnZ TIL there was a guy who fought in the US civil war, spanish american war and went on to fight in WW1 at ripe old age of 77