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TIL Tulips were once more valuable than gold.

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5Ron TIL that in 1970, Bill Murray cracked a joke to another passenger at O'Hare International Airport about carrying a bomb in his suitcase. A ticket agent who overheard the joke summoned the US Marshalls. They didn’t find explosives in the bag, but instead found 10 pounds of weed.
W7YEN TIL that a scene from the film "The Rock" (1996) was the basis for incorrect and false descriptions of the Iraqi chemical weapons program.
VMPwm TIL Horses originated in North-America, but went extinct around the same time the ancestors of the Native Americans arrived (ca. 10 000 years ago).
pDb4 TIL In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child Development Bill, which was then vetoed by Richard Nixon. The bill would have created a multi-billion dollar national day care system designed partially to make it easier for single parents to work and care for children simultaneously.
PYmjO TIL On a postflight tour in China in 1982, astronauts from STS-3 showed pictures of an emerald-colored lake taken over China to a crowd in Beijing and accidentally revealed a secret atomic test site.