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TIL about “follies”: 18th-19th century buildings constructed as displays of extravagant wealth, typically with no practical purpose

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N7EON TIL about Emilie du Châtelet, a scientist who in 1749 feared that bearing a child at 42 would be the last thing she did. She worked furiously on a magnum opus that would eventually change the world of physics. Within days of completing her work, she gave birth to a daughter and died soon after.
VBgAm TIL one of the first things ever sold online was pizza. PizzaNet, owned and operated by Pizza Hut, was created in 1994 and serviced Santa Cruz, California. It was one of the first few thousand on the web. The site is still running today.
6E8dZ TIL that the United States Government, in response to a failing dairy market, began to stockpile millions of pounds of cheese in 1977. This stockpile still exists and now contains over 1.3 Billion pounds of cheese across the US.
ANA47 TIL a Canadian 12 year old graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science. She also plays basketball, the violin and is a competitive figure skater.
xpp1 TIL that it is illegal in the state of Michigan to seduce an unmarried woman