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TIL that the Crying Indian from the Keep America Beautiful ads in the early 1970s was an Italian American.

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KOxaJ TIL the chemical reaction in glow sticks was discovered by Dr. Edwin Chandross in 1962, but he had no idea the "chemiluminescent" objects were popular at music shows until a Vice interview in 2013. "Is that so?" he said. "Maybe my granddaughter will think I'm cool now."
evP6 TIL a female cat can apparently have kittens until they die of old age. Only we and 2 other species have menopause!
OoRRL TIL The first 40-hour work week was in 1916 at factories in Western New York
P4nV TIL Researchers at Yale did a study on teaching monkeys to use money to buy things like grapes, jello and other things. It turns out once the monkeys learned they could buy things with the money they started paying females monkeys for sex, who in turn immediately bought some sweets with it.
4XaP5 TIL NASA was founded about a year after the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik, an artificial satellite and the first human made object to ever enter orbit, because it terrified the United States that this would give the USSR significant ground in the Cold War