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TIL that the Morton Salt Company(Girl in a Yellow Dress) was the same company that caused the Challenger disaster(Morton-Thiokol).

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OZdX TIL Al-Jazari, a Muslim polymath, inventor and scholar created the first robot, a female humanoid automata which washed the hands of her operators, 800 years ago.
oRx4A TIL of NYC's Clean Car Program: after years of unsuccessfully preventing tagging of parked subway cars, NYC changed its approach in 1984. Any cars with graffiti were cleaned within two hours or removed from service. The last graffiti covered car was removed from service on May 12, 1989.
WjkL TIL pirates were not anarchists and had a “Pirate Code’ that provided rules for discipline, division of stolen goods, and compensation for injured pirates
J1DEm TIL Sing Sing Prison is located 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York city. This is where the expression "getting sent up the river" comes from.
1V44 TIL That when Oprah gifted cars to her entire audience, she refused to pay the taxes on the gifts, hence only allowing people willing to pay the gift tax (up to ~10k) to walk away with a car.