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TIL about baby cages. The first commercial patent for a baby cage was filed in 1922 by Emma Read of Spokane, Washington.

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9YRpX TIL During WW2, the US created information material for its white soldiers about to be stationed in Britain, warning them that they would have to cope with black soldiers joining them in pubs. "It might not happen at home, but the point is, we are not at home".
wLrnJ TIL of a professional Scottish sport of haggis hurling that requires that the haggis be in one piece and edible after landing.
P1jL TIL that despite the fear projected by mass media, virtually all of the few known candy poisoning incidents involved parents who poisoned their own children’s candy.
XyNR TIL that a man flew three times on the Space Shuttle without being an astronaut. Charles Walker got turned down by NASA but found a space-related job at McDonnell Douglas. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA $40,000 per flight for Walker to operate its experiments on the shuttle as a payload specialist.
5Wvk TIL Mark Zuckerberg once said, “People actually trust me… dumb fucks”.