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TIL: In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that automobiles were seen as the “green” alternative.

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epZAg TIL There was a minor league baseball player named “Wonderful Terrific Monds III”
Egoyo TIL In China, smuggling a Giant Panda carries at least a 10-year sentence and confiscation of property; under grave circumstances, life sentence or even death sentence together with a total confiscation of property shall be applied.
pYBx4 TIL about the bald-hairy pattern: a consistent pattern in which bald rulers of Russ|a are always replaced by hairy ones, and vice versa.
6ErWl TIL of Musopen, a non-profit org. that provides high-quality recordings of classical music in the public domain, so that anyone can use them. The project emerged as a response to the big corporations in the music industry that were burying old artists, like Beethoven and Chopin, behind copyright
gr9y4 TIL about George de Hebesy who dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he found the solution undisturbed and reconstituted the gold. The Nobel Foundation then recast the medals and presented them back to the winners.