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TIL There hasn’t been a president with a beard in 103 years

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grXlL TIL in 1951, a Californian engineer designed a unique system to transport water to the southern deserts, using 400 artificial geysers that would throw water in an arc at 400 miles per hour through the air to be caught by a funnel at the next geyser.
X81E TIL Cuba has a maximum wage law due to which individuals cannot earn more than 20 U.S. dollars per month.
BgdVx TIL About The New London School Explosion, 294 lives lost to odorless natural gas. The US took action 33 years later by requiring natural gas to be detectable. Companies added Mercaptan to odorize the gas. This was being done in Europe as early as the 1880s.
xVmJ7 TIL THAT Lewis H. Latimer created the carbon filament light bulb that improved Edison’s initial prototype.
olmo TIL Ray Bradbury first titled Fahrenheit 451 “The Fireman”, then called a local fire station to ask what temperature it would take to actually ignite books. The responding firemen placed him on hold and burnt a book, then reported that the heat required was “Fahrenheit 451″.