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TIL that the Burpee is named after a person named Royal Burpee
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TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.
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TIL extermination camp Treblinka II was disguised as a transit camp for deportations further east, complete with made-up train schedules, a fake train-station clock with hands painted on it, names of destinations and a fake ticket window.
lxB5
TIL the inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.” - Philo T Farnsworth
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TIL that Quentin Roosevelt was the only child of a US President to die in military combat.
pYJMe
TIL Lina Khan, the head of the FTC, was nominated for the position just 4 years after graduating law school