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TIL that Wilma Flintstone was the first animated character to be depicted as being pregnant

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epR4L TIL that the United States has had at least one Nobel prize winner every year since 1936
69DJw TIL of the "Simplified Spelling Board," a movement to simplify English spelling (e.g. "proceed" -> "procede", "bureau" -> "buro") in the early 20th century, notably supported by then-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
wLpwJ TIL 2x4s aren’t actually 2” by 4”.
8aD94 TIL Harriet Tubman suffered a violent head injury as a child causing her to frequently slip into into sleep like states. These would produce vivid dreamlike hallucinations that Tubman interpreted as messages from god, to devote her life to freeing southern slaves through the Underground Railroad.
wo7lo TIL There's a trash vortex in the North Pacific Ocean 2x the size of Texas. The Ocean Cleanup Project built an ocean vacuum almost 2,000 ft long and has removed more than 1 million pounds of trash--just 0.5%.