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TIL the US Gov’t Offered $10,000 to any kid who prospected uranium w/the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab in the 50’s

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M7w9W TIL milk can soothe pepper spray
6Evem TIL when it snowed for the first recorded time in Miami in 1977 a meteorologist initially thought it was a coke-drop that had gone wrong, until realizing that the flakes were snow.
gwdX TIL Elijah Wood is the voice actor of Spyro
wLM08 TIL that the first editions of Moby Dick omit the epilogue and move the extracts to an appendix. The plot holes created by this caused the book to flop on release.
kJB64 TIL William Banting, an undertaker, popularized the first high protein/low carb diet in 1864 by publishing 'Letter on Corpulence'. Previously he tried to lose weight by eating potatoes, bread, butter, beer, milk, and sugar. 'Banting' is used to describe this diet and still in use.