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TIL Disney pioneered the switchback queue/line system to keep crowds from blocking attractions at the worlds fair. It became ubiquitous after they began using it at Disneyland.

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epppg TIL that between 1854 and 1921 in the US, over 250,000 children were transported on "Orphan Trains" to be adopted by new families; many found new homes, but, sadly, sometimes the "adoptions" were little more than auctions and the children pressed into forced farm labor.
Z5pa TIL, in a 60’s government funded LSD study, “26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device,” [and more….]
pYYVZ TIL about “The Jalen Generation”. 90’s and 2000’s NBA star Jalen Rose got his name when his mom combined James and Leonard together. There were no other Jalens at the time, but because of Rose’s popularity currently over 30 athletes with versions of the name Jalen are playing in the NBA and NFL.
j6y8n TIL that in 550 AD, the Byzantine Emperor sent two monks to China to smuggle silk worms out of there to avoid Persian control over the Silk Road. The monks hid the worms in their walking sticks, and the silk industry they started lasted for 650 years.
6EDJQ TIL that Japan had no intention of surrendering after the nukes were dropped until emperor Hirohito stepped in. This made some generals so mad that they tried to stage a coup to overthrow the emperor to keep the war going.