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TIL Shirley Temple shot Eleanor Roosevelt in the butt with a slingshot

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gMlWA TIL Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail comes from cooperatively owned cranberry farms where 100% of product profits are returned to farmers.
J1dKB TIL that humans have been wearing clothes for at least 40,000 years. We know this because human body lice can’t survive outside of clothes, and genetic evidence shows that they diverged from head lice 40,000-170,000 years ago.
J1yp8 TIL The NASA plans to decomission the ISS by 2031, via controlled re-entry on the pacific ocean
9b9B TIL: A Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet protested against redeploying the fleet to Pearl Harbor, believing doing so would put the fleet at unnecessary risk if war broke out with Japan. He was relieved of command in February, 1941.
aW5L TIL: New York Macy’s has an escalator made of wood … and is still in operation!