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eEbJ TIL “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God” was Benjamin Franklin’s suggested motto for the Great Seal of the U.S.
krZm TIL The early comedy cinema joke of slipping on a banana peel was a reference to slipping in horse manure.
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
6bRJ TIL: Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx exchanged friendly letters and discussed their similar views on the exploitation of labor.
8alZL TIL about the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. Tobacco companies will pay States based off of their tobacco sales volume. In return, the States will grant Tobacco companies immunity from any death or injury related lawsuits. This also created the Truth Initiative.