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TIL that the invention of glass milk bottles played a key role in public health and pasteurization.

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wPK1 TIL that the ‘great prosperity’ period lasted from 1947-1977. We now live in the 'Great Regression’ period
W7oX9 TIL a US congressman once wielded an 18-inch club made from a walrus penis bone in a congressional hearing.
NXAOQ TIL that Mohammad Salman Hamdani, an EMT who responded to 9/11 and died in the process was treated like a suspect for 5 months. His house and records were raided. And even when his sacrifice was finally recognized his name was not included on the memorial for North tower victims.
8NM4 TIL in 1988 at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Iraq had an army of 1 million, rendering it the 4th largest army in the world.
RXe4 TIL of Susan Warren, a woman from Cleveland, was arrested because she broke into random houses, cleaned them and left a bill for her services with her contact info for payment.