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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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ZpjGD TIL the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has computers that still run on Windows 3.1. They recently posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator with preference given to those who also had MS-DOS experience.
KOnZa TIL inventor of the Murphy-Bed, William Lawrence Murphy (1856-1957), created his first hide-away bed as means to convert his one-room apartment into a parlour, specifically to host the company of his future wife. It was considered inappropriate at the time to for a woman to enter a man's bedroom.
y4ep TIL in 1990, Mr. Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating his voice in prerecorded messages. These messages said “AIDS was divine retribution” and included radio skits simulating lynchings of black children on a playground. The tapes were circulated among elementary and middle school children.
xV6mB TIL of Puputan, a Balinese mass-suicide ritual. In 1906, about 1000 Balinese people marched out and killed themselves ritualistically to avoid the humiliation of surrender to the Dutch. After the ritual concluded, the Dutch stripped the corpses of their valuables and sacked the ruins of the palace.
4XJdg TIL King Tut of Egypt was mummified with erect penis