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TIL About Lysenkoism, an agricultural practice that rejected "bourgeois science" and caused multiple famines in China and the Soviet Union.

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yVZ6p TIL the Lincoln Highway (1910s) made driving across America easier. However, muddy or flooded roads were expected and drivers needed camping gear. The road guide included tips for each town. E.g. Fish Springs, Utah travelers could "build a sagebrush fire" for a local team to find/rescue them.
j6GXR TIL that John Wilkes Booth was present at the hanging of John Brown.
Z8Wg4 TIL In 1999, an alleged prank from the 1970s made Disney recall 3.4 million copies of the videotape of the animation film the 'rescuers', as the movie showed frames of a topless woman, which were 'hidden' in a scene during postproduction more than 20 years earlier
VVX0 TIL of a comic series in which Superman was raised in the Soviet Union and was the champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.
rNLj0 TIL: I just discovered that King Charles III isn’t just the King of England but also the King of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand! One monarch, four countries.