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TIL that Henry Strong ran a successful buggy whip business. He met George Eastman and co founded and funded what would become Eastman Kodak.

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v1GGK TIL that the BBC paid Pink Floyd to jam out in the background LIVE as the Apollo Astronauts landed in 1969.
VM75m TIL of Marty Irby who spoke out against soring TN Walking Horses: caustic stuff & weights are put on legs; a horse throws its leg in the air reacting to the pain which trains the horse for The Big Lick high-stepping. Irby got death threats & even his wife left him for taking a stance against soring.
9YNVM TIL of the Mayak nuclear facility: A nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia that has exposed 450,000 to radiation and was caught dumping untreated nuclear waste in the river from 2001-2004.
neN67 TIL that half the DNA on the NYC Subway matches no known organism