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TIL the 1994 Rangers got drunk and left the Stanley Cup at a strip club

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9Yg1G TIL The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust is a grain reserve of commodities and cash. In 2008 the USDA sold the remaining stocks into an all cash reserve. Since it no longer holds commodities, it can respond to local food crises outside the US, but not to a global one that affects the USA itself.
D1lLD Til that in 1989 the U.S.A was going to build a 50 mile long particle accelerator in texas that would have discovered the higgs-boson 10 years before CERN.
R7Eo9 TIL Japanese researcher Akita Endo tested 6000 compounds in search of a cholesterol-lowering drug before discovering that a mold found on a rice sample found in a grain shop was highly effective. His discovery lex to of statins prescribed to millions of people to prevent heart disease.
78PKX TIL that the elite force of soldiers in 4th century Thebes was 300 homosexual lovers (150 pairs) called Sacred Band of Thebes. They ended Spartan domination in Greece.
AN9Pa TIL: The Gundam series idea of dropping space colonies on Earth was based on a real concept developed in the 1960s known as Ivan's hammer at the annual American Astronautical Society. Which described the use of asteroids as WMDs. Decades later, Carl Sagan and the RAND Corp discussed the feasibility.