› added 1 month ago

7

TIL the US did not have an official national anthem until 1931. Many songs were used, including the SSB.

Read more kennedy-center.org

via reddit.com

Edx7 TIL Meth was created in Japan in 1893. During WW2, Meth was prescribed for Tank and Bomber crews to help keep them awake. Hitler took meth via IV on a regular basis.
9YeVm TIL Beneath the streets of Cincinnati OH is the largest abandoned subway tunnel system in the US. Construction began in the 1910s but was halted by WWI and then canceled indefinitely during the Great Depression.
OoLNa TIL in the 1930s a DuPont chemist found that crystals of a substance called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) tasted very bitter to some but were tasteless to others (about 75% taste bitterness). Researchers found three variants in a gene called TAS2R38. Two copies of this variant make you non-taster.
Z8JnY TIL the government used to take raisins from farmers to keep prices artificially high, until the supreme court struck down the practice in 2015 as unconstitutional.
dODr TIL MLK told 60 Minutes that “A riot is the language of the unheard”