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TIL Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a spin-off from the 90’s show Space Ghost Coast to Coast

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eXGL TIL scientists have traced the start of AIDS to 1908… Despite most people only becoming aware of it in the 1980’s
nWna9 TIL that Adolphe Sax, the son of instrument designers, was prone to accidents. As a kid, he fell from a 3-story height, drank acidic water he mistook for milk, swallowed a pin, fell into a frying pan, was burned in a gunpowder blast, and fell into a river. He grew up to invent the saxophone.
bmKp TIL it is illegal in some states to collect, store, and use rainwater
R5YQ TIL Incans in Peru would purposely deform infant heads to stretch their skulls out permanently; the nobility would have significantly longer skulls than everyone else.
R7AVl TIL San Francisco refused to enforce prohibition - repealing its local ban on illegal saloons, preventing the police from enforcing prohibition, and reprimanding officers who took action against alcohol consumption.