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TIL Butterflies can remember things they learn as caterpillars

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XEOkr TIL In the early 1960s, The Price Is Right gave away prizes like an airplane, a submarine, a swimming pool, and a house in Florida.
plRe TIL that in 1898 a novella was published about a fictional ocean liner called “Titan”, which sank in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. In the novel there were not enough lifeboats for passengers, and it also sank in April, as the real Titanic did 14 years later.
44Mw TIL that in 2000, Nintendo gave away free sports gloves to the owners of the Original Mario Party because so many players were cutting open their palms on the rotating joystick mini-games.
8e7a8 TIL Sophocles wrote over 120 plays but only 7 survive fully
QJO5E TIL that the first scientific paper on the greenhouse effect was published in 1856 by a female scientist, Eunice Newton Foote