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TIL that Spirulina isn't a vegetable, it's a bacteria

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R7yM6 TIL that Fidel Castro, aged 14, once wrote to Roosevelt to ask for $10.
16Xp4 TIL that zinc has been shown to increase male fertility and testosterone, and oysters are very high in zinc, lending credence to the idea that oysters are an aphrodisiac
WkJvY TIL Steve Comisar sold 'Solar Powered Clothes Drier' in national magazines for $49.95 each. Customers received a length of ordinary clothesline.
LkwEd TIL many laugh tracks were made by the Laugh Box machine developed by sound engineer Charles Douglass in 1953.
womZ1 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and horrifyingly, thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.