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TIL the DEA tried to ban Glowsticks from Raves.

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QNMme TIL Encyclopaedia Britannica's best all-time year was 1990 when 100,000 sets were sold. Sales started falling when Microsoft released Encarta in 1993. In 2010, the final print run produced 12,000 sets.
r6Qd TIL that “in just two years – 2011 and 2012 – China produced more cement than the US did in the entire 20th century.”
OGPK1 TIL that Jennifer Lee was Disney's first-ever female director of a major film - with Frozen in 2013
n7VG TIL that Roy Sullivan, a park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times in his career, but ended up shooting himself at age 71
VBjlD TIL that FDR may have not had polio, but rather Guillain–Barré syndrome. Guillain–Barré was not widely understood as a distinct disease until after FDR’s death.