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TIL that the game Snooker was invented by a British Army officer in India called Neville Chamberlain (Not the former Prime Minister). The name "Snooker" came from and was used as a derogatory term for first year, inexperiended soldiers

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kOLG5 TIL that Lillian Gilbreth, the real mother from Cheaper by the Dozen, was also one of the first women to earn a PhD in engineering, pioneered the field of industrial psychology, and invented the pedal trashcan.
OK11 TIL NASA has 2 satellites chasing eachother around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitational anomalies. Their nicknames are Tom & Jerry!
oB0bY TIL There’s a town in Maine where 83% of the population speaks French
lZV1 TIL The Red Cross raised over half a billion dollars to provide housing for the Haitians after their devastating earth quake, and only built a total of 6 homes
kO6Ee TIL that on February 20, 1939 there was a Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden and over 20,000 people attended. The official name for the event was the “Pro American Rally”.