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TIL Ice cream floats used to be so popular that some local governments made it a controlled substance

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NZgJ TIL that Oxford University is so old that no one really even knows when it was founded.
x6Pdb TIL Erramatti Mangamma holds the record for the oldest age to give birth, who gave birth to twins at age 73
Ood7g TIL During WWII there was a bipartisan committee of American Senators who cut so much corruption that they saved several times the cost of the Atomic Bomb program. Members of both parties often voted unanimously together.
NyQP TIL that after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 1 member of Congress out of 470 against war. The dissenting vote? The first woman elected to Congress. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” She was mobbed and had to hide in a phone booth until Congressional police came.
9OL6 TIL Humans almost became extinct in 70,000 BC after a supervolcano erupted and sent 650 miles of earth into the air, dropping the population to as low as 40 breeding couples.