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TIL penicillin was first able to be mass-produced from a moldy cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois

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E1L0P TIL that Marius, a giraffe bred at Copenhagen Zoo was euthanized and publicly dissected at 2 years of age because they didn't want to breed him. He was then fed to lions. This was in spite of other Zoos offering to give Marius a permanent home.
VMgR8 TIL that 'Moron', 'Idiot', and 'Imbecile' were once valid Psychology terms for people with low IQ. When these terms entered vernacular usage as insults, they were disused in favor of 'Mental Retardation' which in turn was disused in favor of 'Intellectual Disability'.
jNbON TIL that a “Kermit” is a unit of time equal to 1/100th of a day (approximately 14.4 minutes)
v1ZlR TIL that in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant women national voting rights.
0wpQM TIL that Frank Sinatra’s publicist auditioned and paid girls $5 to scream at his early performances to get the crowd excited.