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TIL: In 2001 the DEA (drug enforcement agency) tried to ban glow sticks and pacifiers because they considered them “drug paraphernalia”

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PYNoZ TIL that the north and south portions of the Great Salt Lake in Utah are two separate colors. This is due to a railroad causeway disrupting the natural mixing of the lake's water resulting in part of the lake being saltier and promoting the growth of different types of algae.
Dy4r TIL: GM bought out street car companies and tanked them, to sell more cars
VMeKB TIL of Momčilo Gavrić, the youngest Serbian soldier in history who joined at the age of 8 after his family was killed by Austro-Hungarian artillery fire in WW1
6ElkX TIL Willem Kieft, leader of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, ordered an attack on a native village after some pigs have been stolen from a colonist's farms. They later determined that the pigs were actually stolen by fellow colonists.
b9NKj TIL that despite Disney claiming that Steamboat Willie was the "first synchronized sound cartoon", the actual first cartoon to feature synchronized sound was the Fleischer Studios "My Old Kentucky Home" in 1926, 2 years before Steamboat Willie was released