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TIL Borden Dairy's Elsie the Cow, created in 1936, first appeared as one of four cartoon cows (with Mrs. Blossom, Bessie, and Clara) in a 1936 magazine advertisement series featured in medical journals. By 1939, she was featured in her own advertisement campaign that was voted "best of the year".

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x6JbB TIL that Mary Edwards Walker, the only female recipient of the Medal of Honor, was a surgeon, abolitionist, prisoner of war and freethinker who challenged traditional gender roles. She was also a pioneer in a Victorian dress reform movement called "rational dress" as seen in photographs of the time
4xVb TIL conversations in Japanese often involve a ‘yes’ that is meaningless and a pause that means 'no’
MeQpK TIL that until 1948 7-up contained lithium citrate, a mood stabilizer used to treat manic states and bipolar disorder
16vv8 TIL that the H. L. Hunley submarine was the first sub in recorded history to sink an enemy warship.
DQEbD TIL the history of this iconic design known as "jazz"