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TIL that Häagen-Dazs is an American, not European, company founded in the Bronx in 1960

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gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
KO5oa TIL about Elina Powell, a black nurse who served during WWII. She was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time, and fell in love with a German POW there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.
9J8Q TIL that spiders can be affected by different drugs, like marijuana and LSD, which shows in their web-making. This phenomenon has been studied by NASA.
ggXW TIL there was a bull named Bodacious, often described as “The World’s Most Dangerous Bull.” He was infamously known to incapacitate and injure rodeo riders, often crushing their facial bones with his signature power move. He was forced into retirement in 1995 for fear of injuring more competitors.
JYwY1 TIL that Korean Broadcasting Law prevents commercials to be run mid-show. Rather than having multiple short commercial break to be run throughout the course of a program, the entirety of the show is played continuously and is followed by a longer commercial break period.