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dDKej TIL about Charles Neil and his involvement in the Neil-Reynolds report. President Roosevelt sent Neil and James Reynolds to inspect reports of bad slaughterhouse conditions. Their report, which highlighted revolting issues with American meats, led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
WkkvN TIL Native Americans have severe problems with alcohol abuse: around 12% of deaths are alcohol-related
neeEP TIL the last native speaker of Scottish Norse died in 1850, and fragments survived until at least the 1890s
RLZw TIL we nuked space in 1962
0d69M TIL Starbucks is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby-Dick