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TIL The U.S. briefly banned sliced bread in 1943
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TIL a young American applied for and got a job as a reporter - reporting in Japanese - at the biggest Japanese daily, and went on to uncover a deal between a major yakuza boss and the FBI.
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TIL inside NASA’s Juno probe, it has a plaque dedicated to Galileo with writing in his own hand, and 3 Lego mini figures (Galileo, the Roman god Jupiter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno) specially made by the Lego Company using aluminum.
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TIL of the "Elfstedentocht" (eleven city tour). An ice skating tour held on natural ice in the province of Frisia. It visits all 11 historical towns in Frisia and spans almost 200 km. It can only take place when the weather is favorable and has only taken place 15 times since the first one in 1909.
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TIL that 12pt Courier is the standard font for film script writing because it's a fixed-width font meaning letters have equal spaces between them, so 55 lines on a page equals about a minute of screen time
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TIL Albert Einstein and his first wife had a daughter, but no one seems to know what happened to her after she was a year old.