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TIL that Vincent Price had several cookbooks and his grandfather actually invented baking powder!

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oByAY TIL with the US entry into WWI, German nationals were automatically classified "enemy aliens." Some 250,000 people in that category were required to register and carry registration cards. A total of 2,048 were incarcerated for the remainder of the war in two camps in Utah and Georgia.
xVAD7 TIL that the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century was Novarupta, in Alaska in 1912. The eruption lasted for 60 hours and created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Due to its remoteness, the eruption did not kill anyone.
neYOB TIL about Gobekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old temple (7,000 years older than Stonehenge) that predates humanity's oldest known civilizations and is full of strange animal carvings and towering stone pillars. The site's true purpose is still unknown.
JYDgm TIL desegregation resulting from Brown v. Board of Education led to the layoff of 38,000 black teachers when school districts were integrated, even though black teachers had a greater percentage of college attainment than their white counterparts. 90% of black principles were also laid off.
Y7R9W TIL a server received a lottery ticket as a tip, winning $10 Million. Subsequently, the man who gave her the ticket and even her coworkers sued for a portion. Following this, her ex-husband kidnapped her, leading to her shooting him. Her legal saga continued with a court battle against the IRS.