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6ae8 TIL that in 1994 a Texas A&M professor demonstrated that strawberry Pop-Tarts could produce a flame over a foot high when overheated in a toaster. A wave of lawsuits followed.
wLjgP TIL There is no age limit to be the House Speaker, you just have to be a US Citizen to be 3rd in the line of succession.
R7NN6 TIL Congressman Leo Ryan is the only US member of Congress to ever be killed in the line of duty. He was assasinated while investigating the Jonestown cult.
W7p59 TIL the Australian Navy formally enlisted a six-year-old girl in order to give her medical treatment onboard a navy ship; regulations did not allow for civilians to get medical treatment on navy ships. The girl's official rating was 'mascot', and she was 'discharged' after 8 days of 'service'.
D1pgP TIL in the early 1920s, the KKK was very active in Chicago with 50,000 members in the city, the largest of any metropolitan area in the U.S. The group was driven from the city in 1925, when a Catholic organization, American Unity League, printed names, addresses, and occupations of Chicago Klansmen.