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TIL about Charles I. D. Looff, a German manufacturer who built the first carousel on Coney Island, the historic Crescent Park carousel, and the Santa Monica Pier in California

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dDM4E TIL that in 2012, the National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO) gifted NASA two space telescopes with capabilities exceeding that of the Hubble telescope. For example, the telescopes have shorter focal lengths, which in turn gives them a field of view that is 100x larger than Hubble.
x6pN7 TIL Seth McFarlane is one of many waiting to be cryopreserved when they die
wooaP TIL all of Oklahoma's "Unassigned Lands" were settled in one day. At high noon on April 22, 1889, approx. 50k settlers lined up, and a starting gunshot was fired. They raced chaotically to claim the lands (taken back from Indigenous tribes), and by the end of the day, nearly 2M acres were claimed
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kOD14 TIL about the existence of a psychosomatic/hysteria condition called PPS, where it is believed that if a horny dog bites you, you will get pregnant and you will give birth to the puppies from your penis