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TIL Anderson Cooper is heir to the Vanderbilt Family

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8exVZ Today I learned the confetti in Times Square is all thrown by hand
oBP4E TIL that in the 9th century Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life created a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. Ironically, short of a path to immortality, they had discovered gunpowder.
woG98 TIL in 1918 a judge in the USA ruled it was legal for condoms to be advertised and sold for the prevention of disease
XEDEE TIL that San Diego Zoo maintains a so-called "frozen zoo", a facility in which they preserve DNA from rare and near-extinct species
0d6E5 TIL That Mary Shelly finished writing her masterpiece Frankenstein at the age of 19.