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TIL: 75 Years Later, Purple Hearts Made for an Invasion of Japan are Still Being Awarded

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Y70Er TIL the Pittsburgh refrigerator cat was a mythical breed of cat claimed to lived in refrigerated warehouses at the turn of the century
EWEo TIL in 1955 the US designed a nuclear powered cruise missle. The SLAM’s unshielded reactor would sicken, injure, and/or kill living things beneath its flight path and its strategically selected crash site would receive intense radioactive contamination.
0we0N TIL Gary Larson received some backlash for 'The Far Side' comic which has a female gorilla finding a hair on a male and asking, 'Conducting some research with that Jane Goodall tramp?' A rep from the Jane Goodall Institute complained, but Goodall herself later said she thought the comic was funny
neZG TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but the idea was deemed to be “too upsetting to the audience”.
ADopn TIL about the Copper Scroll, an ancient treasure map. Found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, it relates 64 positions where gold and silver have been hidden. Though searches are ongoing, as of yet, no treasure has been found.