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TIL about the Ice cream barge, a WWII ship entirely devoted to making ice cream

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p8B6A TIL that our weeks have 7 days because the ancient Babylonians had one day for each known celestial body: the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn
168gV TIL in the 1920s AT&T built a "telephone pole farm" in Chester Township, New Jersey to test different types of trees and protectant methods. It was also a training ground for technicians to practice climbing.
WkalA TIL King George had a reply to the Declaration of Independence sent back called An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress. It picked apart the Declaration at length, including pointing out that one cannot claim "all men are created equal" when the Colonies still allowed slavery.
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WkGk8 TIL there's a village in India where snakes are family. Cobras roam freely and are worshipped with a place dedicated in every house where they can come to chill, and are also known to frequent schools, with not a single snake-bite case reported.