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TIL Wasps Can Recognize Faces
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TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.
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TIL that in 1930 there were 32,000 speakeasies operating in New York City due to Prohibition
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TIL Blue Bunny ice cream was named in a 1935 contest. The winner noted how much his little boy enjoyed seeing blue bunnies in a department store window at Easter and thought it made a fun name. He won $25 (today's equivalent, $560).
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TIL After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, hundreds of people (many of them already injured), made their way towards Nagasaki. Of these, 165 survived BOTH atomic bombings and lived to tell the tale.
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TIL when you see CNN playing in airport terminals you're actually watching a special version of the channel CNN produces just for airports