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TIL: The space age architectural style of the 50s/60s is called Googie and Wildwood, NJ is one of it’s noted districts.

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Meb5B TIL An influenza pandemic took place in 1957-58 with outbreaks throughout the world with at least 1 million fatalities
d8vwB TIL : Chimps have more adaptive genetic changes than human.
woGA7 TIL that in Iceland alone there are 111 'Blood farms' - that forcibly extract huge quantities of blood from pregnant mares - horses. The blood is used to create a hormone (PMSG) that is given to factory farm pigs to increase the size of their litters.
78g6X TIL that in 2006, the movie Blazing Saddles was found to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. It has since been preserved in the National Film Registry.
mx79Y TIL of Mack Ray Edwards, a serial killer who killed 6+ kids from 1953-1970 and buried their bodies in the highways he was helping construct. Some bodies still have not been uncovered.