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TIL that America’s first recorded student protest, the Great Butter Rebellion, was sparked by the cry ‘Behold, our butter stinketh! - give us therefore, butter that stinketh not.’

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PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
wnV7 TIL The Singer Sewing Machine Company built 500 1911 pistols for the US Government in 1939 and they are one of the most collectable firearms of that era.
9mw6 TIL that Thomas & Friends was not the first television adaption of the Railway Series - in 1953, the BBC commisioned a live adaption of “The Sad Story of Henry” During broadcast, a failure to switch the points caused the model of Henry to derail and a human hand to reach out and re-attach it.
6EOl7 TIL Golden rice is a variety of rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene. It is intended to be consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency each year is estimated to kill 670,000 children under the age of 5
o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.