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TIL the only people protected from age discrimination in the United States are those over the age of 40.

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XKNR TIL sliced bread was first sold in 1928, marketed as “The greatest thing since wrapped bread”
M77mB TIL In 1969, an American destroyer named USS Frank E. Evans collided with an Australian aircraft carrier in the South China Sea at 3:00am because the commanding officer was asleep and left two inexperienced lieutenants in charge. The ship turned the wrong way, collided, & sank, killing 74 people
6EYl8 TIL one of Edgar Allan Poe’s rivals wrote a scathing obituary about him in order to posthumously destroy him. However, his attempt failed and sales from Poe’s works skyrocketed.
699BJ TIL about Butteri, Italian cowboys. When Buffalo Bill toured in Italy with his Wild West Show in 1890, the Butteri, led by Augusto Imperiali, challenged his troupe and won proving far more experience.
xVdoD TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.