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TIL that the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota is the only American National Park named directly after a single person.

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1678d TIL Krogrer stores (QFC, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, etc.) will pay for shipping if you put packaging from their personal brands in a box and mail it back to them for reuse at no cost to you. You can use a box you already own. They also recycle tons of types of plastic in-store.
MGY0 TIL that the Chinese explorer Zhang He died from an arrow in the knee.
Lll9 TIL That the first spacesuits for the Apollo missions were designed by the bra-maker Playtex, not a military contractor. Their designs were so much better than anyone else’s that they had to be taken seriously.
oEKL TIL – an Amish inventor developed a solar-powered electronic automatic-start kit for Honda engines that are used as part of off-grid well-pump systems.
E1gMP TIL The 1996 film "Crash" (about people who sexually fetishize car crashes) was proposed for a ban in the UK. A lawyer, a psychologist, and 11 disabled people watched the film, and found no basis for a ban. The disabled people in particular saw no offense in its portrayal of disability.