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TIL that in 1969 Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio literally caught on fire, which resulted in the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency the next year

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p818N TIL that garbha Upanishad(esoteric doctrine over the embryo),a hindu upanishadic texts deal with the theory of the formation and development of the human embryo and human body after birth.in section 3 it gives an idea about how embryo develops.
x6Xb7 TIL during the rise of Japan as a major economic power, seen as an economic threat to the US, anti-Japanese sentiment was so high that a Chinese American was beaten to death before his wedding on the assumption that he was Japanese. In 1987, US congressmen smashed Toshiba products on Capitol Hill
8ama8 TIL Thomas Jefferson and George Washington happened to both be King George III's 11th cousin, once removed. They were leading a revolution against their own blood relatives.
e0KVL TIL A man called Miyamoto Musashi is considered the greatest swordsman who ever lived and even defeated legendary swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He arrived on the Island where they were due to fight, late, and with a wooden sword he'd carved out of an oar of the boat he used to get to the island.
oRnY8 TIL the renowned architect Buckminster Fuller experienced an epiphany around age 32 where he felt himself suspended several feet above the ground in a white sphere of light. A voice said things like, "You think the truth. You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You belong to the universe."