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KxJa TIL Companies such as General Motors (fronting as National City Lines) bought out companies that operated electric streetcars across the USA and fully replaced them with buses, which were reliant on foreign oil.
WNYN TIL that Astronaut Ice Cream flew on only one mission. It was too crumbly, not very popular with the Astronauts, and the technology to carry up real ice cream was in place by 1972.
kOyQd TIL about the Bonus Army, a group of WWI veterans who converged on Washington DC during The Great Depression in 1932. They were demanding wartime bonuses which were scheduled for full payment in 1945. They were also unsuccessful in their efforts.
neNYW TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.
wMDY TIL the Coast Guard trained pigeons to assist in finding people lost at sea. They sat in a dome attached to a helicopter, pressing a lever after spotting life preservers or debris. They had a 90% success rate in initial trials.