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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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D1G0V TIL of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a prominent american female labour activist, known for her promotion of women's rights, birth control, and suffrage. She died during a visit to the Soviet Union in 1964, and was awarded a state funeral and procession on the Red Square.
5wO9 TIL the Canadian province of Alberta is one of the few places in the world considered to be rat free.
78lBp TIL Active Listening is listening with the intent to understand the other person fully rather than listening to respond. However, it was criticized by John Gottman's "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" as being of limited usefulness.
N7oN TIL that Bobby Fischer played the “Game of the Century” in tournament play in which he sacrificed his queen and won the game. And he was 13years old when it did it.
OGOJX TIL that during the French colonization of Syria, General Henri Gouraud went to Saladin’s tomb, kicked it, and said: “Awake, Saladin. We have returned. My presence here consecrates the victory of the Cross over the Crescent."