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TIL The Steel Crisis was not caused by foreign imports but by American companies refusal to modernize.

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d85Jd TIL there have been "targeted interventions" that show increasing metacognition in clients with schizophrenia can lead to more complex self-reflection and be pivotal in the recovery process.
9Xk7 TIL that shortly before 2 am on Feb. 6, 1858, over 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a fistfight which only ended when a hairpiece was ripped off one of the combatants, causing the melee to dissolve into “a chorus of laughs and jeers.”
0dXR1 TIL At a length of 130m and able to carry more than 7000 men (4000 being rowers) the Tessarakonteres was the largest ship built in antiquity. Built by order of Ptolemy IV Philopator in the 3rd century BCE she required an early dry dock to construct. Ultimately her great size made her impractical.
D1mv TIL the (hilarious comedy) “Airplane!” was a remake of the 1957 (totally serious) dramatic film “Zero Hour,” and contains many of the same exact lines and scenes.
ADA5n TIL that when Queen Elizabeth got married in 1947, she had to save up post-war clothing ration coupons to pay for her wedding dress.