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TIL Air Conditioning was invented in 1881 in an effort to cool the mortally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield

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oRvgL TIL about The Lost Battalion of WW1. Wherein soldiers of the US 77th Div. launched an attack in the Argonne forest under the idea that they were being supported by French on the left and more US on the right. Ally support was stalled and the 77th pushed their attack so far that they were cut off.
w0R6 TIL There was scandal that came to light in 2008 which involved judges giving harsh sentences to young people over relatively harmless crimes for kickbacks from private prison owners.
4Mdo TIL that the wife’s happiness is more important than her husband’s when it comes to keeping a happy, lasting marriage, in a study that surveyed older couples married for an average of 39 years.
rRVPd TIL of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, used by the government to control the weather on demand. Examples include creating real snowfall for New Years Day and moving clouds away from the Olympic Stadium to prevent rain by firing chemicals into the sky.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.