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TIL LEGO has a vault of every set they have ever made since the 1950s

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VMB0B TIL Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, was not only responsible for bacon and eggs becoming an American breakfast staple, but was also responsible for women taking up smoking in protest in the 1920's, dubbing them "Torches Of Freedom".
oBBoo TIL Juan Carlos I (former King of Spain) once told Hugo Chavez to shut up (¿¡Por qué no te callas!?) when the Venezuelan leader called a former Spanish prime minister a "fascist" and "less human than snakes."
oRkpW TIL that the first ever morse code message was “what hath god wrought?”
XeKD TIL that 600 years before Galileo, al-Biruni wrote that the earth rotates on its axis. Unlike Galileo, his ideas were accepted by religious scholars.
MQE0 TIL: Youtube has a charts page which is virtually inaccessible through the front page.