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TIL children's menus were created by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to replace liquor revenue lost as a result of Prohibition.

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KYyDB TIL Due to Chinese cultural beliefs about mental illness and intellectual disability, Chinese people may consider an autistic child as a 'bad seed' and a disgrace to their family. Parents may deny that their child is autistic or keep the autistic child as a family secret
8elZZ TIL The forerunner to the pressure cooker, the steam digester, was desigend to separate out fats and prepare bones for bone meal.
N7gmP TIL about the Berlin Conference in 1884. 14 European countries held a 6 month long conference to formally divide Africa, so they an invade, overthrow existing governments, and pillage without fighting among each other. By 1902 90% of the continent was owned by European countries.
PoYE TIL “The Great Smog” of London, UK was a severe air pollution event that lasted 5 days and killed an estimated 12,000 people in December of 1952.
mxKeE TIL that jail is where you stay if you did something that made you stay behind bars for less than a year and prison is for when it is for more than a year.