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TIL: In 19th Century America, free college was the norm across the entire United States. It wasn’t until as late as the mid 1960s in some area that public universities began charging regularly for degrees

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Z84Q TIL that in 1907 Kellogg’s promoted their cornflakes with something called the Wink Day campaign. Women we’re encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” , what they got was a free box of cereal.
7rMKx TIL about Osborne Bulls, iconic bull-shaped billboards found on highways throughout Spain that once served as advertisements for Vetenaro brandy. First erected during the 1950s, The billboards have become something of a national symbol in Spain.
rk4M TIL that in 1258 the Mongols destroyed Baghdad. Survivors said that “the waters of the Tigris ran black with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river and red from the blood of the scientists and philosophers killed.” The siege marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age.
jNb9v TIL, aside the Soviet Union, Vietnam was also responsible for the survival and rise of the Chinese Communist Party during Mao’s early days of formation and the Long March. Vietnam even sent one of their Communist party member who became a major general in the PLA.
nWJo TIL-That some police dogs are equipped with ballistic vests and even given a full police funeral when killed in the line of duty