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TIL The Statue Of Liberty Was Inspired By The Pagan Goddess Libertas

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nWGbY TIL about Monjeríos, where Indigenous girls in colonial California were forced to live in terrible conditions, abused, and even had their husbands chosen by priests.
ojgo TIL of the Reverse Tinkerbell Effect, an expression that stipulates that the more people believe in something, the more likely it is to vanish; If more people view cars as being safe to drive, the less safe they become as more people tend to drive without caution.
78W1P TIL On Aug. 1, Sprite will ditch the soft drink’s green-colored bottles in favor of clear PET bottles. Green, has contributed to it as one of the most recognizable brands. Sprite states that they try to further bottle-to-bottle recycling and increase the the availability of recycled material-PET.
885V TIL Tony Bennett fought on the front lines in Germany during WWII as an 18 year old G.I. He helped liberate a concentration camp and was demoted for eating lunch with his black friend.
B0Ge TIL a European engineer has created a liquid-filled, sun-tracking, energy-harvesting glass sphere is so powerful that it can not only collect solar rays as well as reflected lunar light. It can magnify this light by a factor of 10,000, turning illumination into heat energy.