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TIL pink was the colour for boys in the early 20th century

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brg9 TIL there’s a water slide in Germany which is so intense, that women are banned from riding it
Me1PK TIL that Irene Triplett is the sole surviving person receiving a Civil War pension from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Irene's father, Mose Triplett, was born in 1846, managed to fight on both sides of the Civil War, and was 83 when Irene was born.
Mwpm TIL Star Wars the Force Awakens spent $50M more on advertising and trailers ($250M) than they did on production ($200M)
1aZ18 TIL about Joseph C. Rowell, who in 1894, established interlibrary loan (ILL) in the US. With ILL, you can go to your library and request and borrow (almost) any resource available for public circulation that is held in ANY library in the US, for little or no cost.
9wbO7 TIL: the macadamia nut is the only indigenous Australian plant grown as a large scale commercial food crop