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TIL aluminum Christmas trees were popular in the 50’s and early 60’s; when the Charlie Brown Christmas special aired, sales dropped dramatically to the point where they were taken out of the market.

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yQnwM TIL about Britches, an infant monkey who was taken from his mother shortly after birth and had his eyes sewn shut, so researchers could study his blindness. He was broken out by animal rights activists.
781Yx TIL Bertha Benz becoming the first person to drive an automobile a significant distance. On 5 August 1888
KOvoQ TIL A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, instead of actor James Earl Jones
KOxgJ TIL Until the late 1970s, 80s, classical music received almost as much coverage as professional sports. Leonard Bernstein's 1943 concert was broadcast live on radio to millions of listeners, and was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times
e1jL TIL: Chris Hadfield (the first Canadian to walk in space and one time commander of the ISS) recorded the first music video in space. Before he handed over command of the ISS in May 2013, he paid tribute to David Bowie by recording his version of Space Oddity.