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ep0B5 TIL The Price is Right prizes in the late '50s were some of the most overboard ever on television. Offering things like bulk amounts of food and livestock to new houses, property, company stocks, small businesses, a submarine, and even an island.
4Xxna TIL about Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896-1966), a Chinese-American suffragette. At the age of 16, she was invited to help lead a march of 10,000 people up Fifth Avenue.
8ybb TIL Emmy was the ship’s cat on the RMS Empress of Ireland. She never missed a voyage. However, on 28 May 1914, Emmy tried to escape the ship. The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Early the next morning the Empress sank.
O0B6 TIL a teenage model in the 1920s was the inspiration behind 15 of some of the most iconic statues in NYC. Her career destroyed in 1922 by a murder mystery and scandal,she attempted suicide, was admitted to a mental institution where she spent 65 yrs and died in obscurity at the age of 105.
NgRE TIL that in 1956 the US government placed beer near a nuclear explosion to see whether it would still be drinkable after a nuclear fallout, it was.