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TIL that the FCC adopted a ban on TV ads that are louder than shows

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grOO9 TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented in the 1940s to be mixed with (often homemade) whiskey
jNZnn TIL before the fruit, the colour orange had no name, it was basically known as a "yellow-red". The earliest known usage of the word Orange to refer to the fruit is around the 13th century. The earliest use of the word Orange to refer to the colour is the 16th Century.
wLZG1 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope of Columbus, Georgia, a free woman of color, who owned her husband. After they quarreled, she sold him to a white slaveowner; he refused to sell him back once the couple had reconciled.
XEEgP The answer isn't so simple.
d8nXd TIL about Impatiens glandulifera or Himalayan Balsam. We have a plant that is very common near us and grows very quickly throughout our local area along rivers. I assumed it was Japanese Knotweed, however on closer investigation it is not, but is still an invasive species brought to the UK in 1839.