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TIL the Irish potato famine was not about blight. There was plenty of food to feed everyone in Ireland. The main problem was greed. And British rulers who blamed the poor themselves.

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NX45b TIL Organized cheerleading began in the 1870s as an all-male activity. Women weren't permitted to participate in cheerleading until 1923, with newspapers and manuals still referring to cheerleaders as "chap", "fellow", or "man" at the time.
0Ej TIL after a student was suspended for wearing their t-shirt, Korn donated hundreds of shirts to be given out and police officers helped to do so
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.
4MV6 TIL a man cracked the code to winning scratch lottery tickets, but calculated it would only net him $600/day and instead of secretly plundering the game, he decided to report the problem to the Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
epVGD TIL The island nation of Tuvalu's remote location limited the development of tourism and it has only one hotel, the 17 room Vaiku Lagi Hotel