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TIL the color magenta comes from what the blood soaked ground looked like during the Battle of Magenta, 1859

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NwdN TIL Harry S. Truman created the"Truman Committee" in 1941 to investigate war profiteers and abuse of taxpayer’s money during WWII. Until he assumed office in 1945, Truman had no idea that the money was funding a secret weapon - The Manhattan Project.
e0oAE TIL that in 1914, police in California hired two men to lure homosexuals into public "glory holes" where the pair would score their victims penis with permanent markers and then drag them to the police station to be prosecuted.
69n57 TIL that researchers have quantified how quickly irregular verb forms “regularize”: the half-life of an irregular verb scales as the square root of its usage frequency. For example, the word "dreamt" is slowly being replaced by "dreamed".
GYjKJ TIL the Garfield plush dolls with suction cup feet were so popular in the 1980's that Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, became worried about overexposure. He paused the sell of them for 5 years.
NnLe TIL that not all snowflakes are unique but can be divided up to 80 distinct snowflake types