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TIL Forrest Gump is being preserved as a culturally significant part of human history.

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yQZAv TIL about the Great California flood of 1862 - which submerged Sacramento under 10 feet of water and turned California’s Central Valley into a vast inland sea spanning 300 miles long, 20 miles wide and 30 feet deep. It killed thousands, bankrupted the state and historically happens every 200 years.
X0kMD TIL It has been observed since the Roman times that alcohol consumption by pregnant women has harmful effects on their child. Also, alcohol was used until the 1980s to prevent preterm labor, and was sometimes administered intravenously.
RnL4 TIL that when Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the WorldWideWeb, his boss wrote “vague, but exciting” on the cover, giving the go-ahead that resulted in the modern internet.
4XOPw TIL most of the actors that auditioned for the role of Al Bundy on the sitcom Married with Children played him as angry and yelling. Ed O'Neil was the only one that portrayed him as a resigned loser
wow7W TIL that in 1857, Mormon saints killed an entire wagon train of 120 Arkansans bound for California when they passed through southern Utah. Later dubbed the "Mountain Meadows Massacre," they left only 17 survivors, all under the age of 5, and attempted to raise them in the LDS faith.