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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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njV7 TIL that President McKinley was supposed to meet the inventor of the bullet proof vest to try the new invention but never made it because he was shot to death by a bullet that would have easily been stopped by the vest
kKYe TIL menstrual stem cells (found in period blood) could be used to create more tissue types than other adult stem cells, including bone, blood vessel, fat, brain, lung, liver, pancreas, & heart. They grow more readily & rapidly than other types of adult stem cells from bone marrow & umbilical cords.
myEv TIL that in 2013 a 200-year-old law was removed in Paris that forbid women from wearing pants.
9YBp TIL that there is a group of US millionaires who want to be taxed at a higher rate in order to benefit the US economy. Patriotic Millionaires For Fiscal Strength
N7BYQ TIL There is a monument in Kyoto Japan called the Ear Mound. It consists of Ears and Noses of Chinese and Koreans killed by the Japanese in the late 1500's. Its estimated there are 38,000 Korean noses in this Ear Mound memorial.