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TIL that Betty Crocker isn't a real person, but a mascot for General Mills

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X0wVQ TIL Col. Shaw carried a famous sword into his final battle, depicted in the film Glory (1989). Thought to be stolen by a Confederate soldier after his death, it was actually retrieved by one of his black soldiers. The sword was kept in the Shaw family attic for over 150 years and is now at MASSHIST.
xV7RD TIL that New York once banned women from smoking in public to “save their souls.”
OdV4 TIL that Oaksterdam University is an internationally recognized college that trains students for the cannabis industry, with a mission to “legitimize the business and change the law to make cannabis legal”
x6XD0 TIL that MRI machines were originally called NMRI machines but they were forced to drop the first word - “Nuclear” - due to its negative connotations associated by the public.
jNnBX TIL about Amanirenas, the one-eyed warrior queen of Kush, who captured a series of Roman forts, brought home the head of a statue of Augustus as a trophy, then later negotiated peace with him.