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TIL Teddy Roosevelt was a staunch conservationist and banned Christmas trees from the White House

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mjgY TIL That Jack Kilby, as a new employee at Texas Instruments, did not have a summer vacation. While the rest of his colleagues took their summer time off, he used his time to invent the integrated circuit
0dRL5 TIL we can't just throw all our garbage into a volcano to burn it up because volcanoes are not hot enough to melt the metals in the trash, and most volcanoes don't actually have a lava lake (only 8 of the thousands on earth)
NXeeM TIL Carbonara didn't exist before WWII and likely came from US Military supplies of eggs and bacon in Italy during WWII.
WlEN TIL Princess Angela of Liechtenstein, of Panamanian origin and a graduate of Parsons, is first person of known African origin to marry into a reigning European dynasty, having a biracial son, Alfons, as 6th in line in its throne.
BgaW TIL that researchers once did an fMRI study showing that a dead salmon demonstrated brain activity when shown a series of photographs. It was done to point out methodological flaws in fMRI research.