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TIL that after Hurricane Katrina, watermelons grew everywhere in St. Bernard Parish.

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JeBB TIL Henry Ford pursued the gasoline-powered automobile after receiving encouragement from his employer and boyhood idol, Thomas Edison.
1anMO TIL that in 1945, at the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, the USSR requested that all 15 Soviet Republics be made members of the UN to better represent the people of the east. The US countered this by requesting that all 50 US states be made members of the UN.
gr987 TIL During WW1 Sauerkraut was called liberty cabbage.
kJ1X1 TIL that the night before his inauguration as Vice President, Andrew Johnson attended a party in his honor at which he drank heavily. The following morning, a hungover Johnson delivered a rambling, incoherent address in the Senate Chamber as Abraham Lincoln, the Congress, and dignitaries looked on.
XgxD TIL that Dan Aykroyd is a 4th generation Spiritualist, his great-grandfather was a mystic, and his father wrote a book called “A History of Ghosts.”