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TIL in the 1970s Gerber attempted to market "adult baby food" to college students and other young adults.

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e0X1J TIL that jigsaw puzzles almost never have the number of pieces they say on the box: most “1000-piece” puzzles are 38 x 27 = 1026
4PPo TIL that the English language has no future tense verbs, and English speakers have developed complicated and nuanced ways to talk about the future that many other languages lack.
mLZP TIL Samuel Johnson wrote a dictionary in 1755, in which he defined oats as: “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” A Scottish man was said by Sir Walter Scott to have retorted, “Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?”
rNXny TIL Albert Kahn was an industrial architect working out of Detroit. In 1937 he designed 19% of all factories built that year. He opened an architectural school in Russia. In 1941 he received the eighth highest salary in the USA, $486,936. His last building was the Willow Run bomber plant.
ANMB7 TIL In December 1941, Franklin Roosevelt became the first President to use an armored vehicle. Originally belonging to infamous gangster Al Capone, the car was seized by the Treasury Department in 1932 on an income-tax evasion charge.