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TIL soft serve ice cream became popular after Tom Carvel’s ice cream truck got a flat tire. He started serving the melting ice cream to vacationers. Two years later he opened his first soft serve ice cream shop at the same site where his truck broke down.

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wLRV1 TIL At age 24, George Ellery Hale revolutionized solar observations with his invention of the spectroheliograph, making it possible to photograph the sun's prominences in full daylight. A spectroheliograph can tune-in to gases such as hydrogen and calcium, and photograph specific solar details
PYXlw TIL The woman killed in the Gare Montparnasse accident was filling in for her husband at his newspaper stand
9Y5Vm TIL About Richard Best, the Pilot that helped Sink 2 Japanese Carriers in Battle of Midway during WW2 just 6 months after Pearl Harbour. Only the 2nd man in all of world to destroy multiple aircraft carriers in a single day.
d818j TIL broccoli and cauliflower can breed, producing broccoflower
mxv8o TIL that 300 million years ago insects could get really big. Millipedes and centipedes could get larger than humans, dragonflies as big as eagles, beatles the size of a large dog.The leading theory is that ancient bugs got big because they benefited from a surplus of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.