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TIL: Mister Rogers flatuated in public to make his wife laugh

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1RlO TIL After Ben Franklin lost his 4 year old son to Smallpox, he became an advocate for Inoculation, and stated in his autobiography: “I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.“
oRP6K TIL malaria was common in the United States until it was eradicated in 1951
bBVN TIL that beer was invented in Iran 7000 years ago. Today, it’s outlawed there.
9Y4b6 TIL that three founders funded their startup by scraping their savings together to send one of them who was a professional poker player to play in a tournament. He won $30,000 which served as seed funding for Bloomnation which is a very successful firm today.
G4kQ TIL The Parental Advisory sticker eventually came into being after Tipper Gore heard her 11-year old daughter listening to Prince’s “Darling Nikki”, causing her to co-found Parents Music Resource Center