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TIL Incandescent light bulbs will not be available for purchase as soon as 2014

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QNWBp TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.
7r6EP TIL that L. Frank Baum, the author of the famous children's book, "the Wizard of Oz," called for the genocide of American Indians, writing in 1890 and 1891 that "in order to protect our civilization . . . wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth"
VBVZZ TIL that a comet smells like rotten eggs, urine, burning matches and almonds. Traces of hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, sulphur dioxide and hydrogen cyanide were all found in the makeup of the comet 67P/Churyumove-Gerasimenko. Promotional postcards were even commissioned in 2016 carrying the scent of it
5VgYk TIL that one of the main Romanovs survived the Bolsheviks and came to live in Toronto Canada
rYXx TIL there is a light bulb in California that hasn’t burned out for over 100 years.