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TIL Despite Father's Day being celebrated since the Middle Ages in most of Europe, it wasn't founded until 1910 in the US and post-WWII in the UK.

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EgglW TIL that Scotts Miracle-Gro Company knowingly sold poisoned bird seed for over 2 years. They sold 70+ million bags of bird seed with a pesticide toxic to birds to help with insect control during storage. Scotts paid a fine of $4 million and give an additional $500,000 donation to wildlife study.
edBg TIL: At the height of its power, now bankrupt Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. In comparison, when Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people.
dOBj TIL that a town in North Carolina banned solar energy because they thought it would “suck up all the energy from the sun”
8xpb TIL that the first same-sex marriage license in the US was issued exactly 39 years ago, in Boulder, CO (by county clerk Clela Rorex, who later refused a marriage license to a man and his horse… because the underage horse did not have parental consent)
7rO8X TIL: Ben Cohen (one of the 2 founders of Ben & Jerry's) has severe anosmia, a lack of a sense of smell or taste, and so relied on "mouth feel" and texture to provide variety in his diet. This led to the company's trademark chunks being mixed in with their ice cream.