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TIL that Dynamite and TNT are actually different kinds of explosives, the former one having Nitroglycerin in its compounds. The common misconception of both being the same likely comes from pop culture references.

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N7pJ6 TIL about Rebecca Huger, an 11-year-old emancipated slave girl who posed for patriotic photos with the U.S. flag; the photos were sold to raise money for the education of freed slaves in New Orleans. "To all appearance she [was] perfectly white," like her father/former owner.
E1ka0 TIL there is a city in New Mexico, USA called 'Truth or Consequences'
wLNGY TIL Roger Bowen, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the 1970 film MASH, died one day after the death of McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the television adaptation of the film
KYbBG TIL Mark Hamill followed up Star Wars with the 1978 comedy Corvette Summer. He plays a high school student who befriends a sex worker and joins a crime ring while hitchhiking to Las Vegas to recover a stolen corvette. It's essentially the Dude, Where's My Car of the 1970s.
woORW TIL that in over 50 years, 'In N Out' has kept their menu essentially the same, with the exception of the "Secret Menu Hack" of Animal Styles fries or burgers that started in the '60s.