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TIL about Ellsworth & Emery Kolb, brothers from the early 1900's who "dangled from ropes, clung to sheer cliff walls by their fingertips, climbed inaccessible summits", and defied death to photograph the Grand Canyon

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VRNm TIL in July 1984 President Ronald Reagan called ice cream “a nutritious and wholesome food” and established National Ice Cream Month.
epEAJ TIL according to genetic and archaeological evidence, cannabis was first domesticated about 12,000 years ago in East Asia during the early Neolithic period. The oldest written record of cannabis usage is the Greek historian Herodotus's reference to the Scythians taking cannabis steam baths.
GAyJE TIL about Lampo the train dog, who memorized the Italian train schedule and used the system to travel around the country and return home at sunset all on his own.
9wLvr TIL there is a type of jellyfish that can live forever.
B7Yk TIL the first ever parking sign was from c. 700BC, Ancient Assyria, and read “ROYAL ROAD - LET NO MAN DECREASE IT”. The penalty was being impaled in front of your house.