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TIL William Lear, Founder of the Lear Jet Corporation, named one of his daughters Crystal Shanda Lear

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M70PB TIL: In 2013 a group in California were genetically engineering plants to glow in the dark and hoping to replace streetlights
kOgV4 TIL that Rutherford B. Hayes didn't serve alcohol at White House events. Secretary of State Evarts quipped that at White House dinners, "water flowed like wine."
KOGpa TIL in 1936, Cleveland lost the largest book in the world. The 'Golden Book of Cleveland' was 7 feet by 5 feet and 3 feet thick, with 6,000 pages — nearly the size of a queen-size bed. It weighed roughly 2.5 tons.
DaQr TIL: America spends $34mil a year of taxpayer money to broadcast TV and radio to Cuba from Miami, FL. These broadcasts reach less than 1% of Cuba’s 11million residents. Broadcasted signals are jammed regularly by the Cuban government.
Ya6G TIL that the Church of Scientology maintains a facility known as “The Hole”, which is alleged to be holding nearly 100 former executives against their will.