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TIL- The 8th U.S President Martin Van Buren never once mentioned his wife in his 800 page autobiography.

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kJWK4 TIL China Produces More Steel than the Rest of the World Combined
Z84OB TIL that Rage Agaisnt the Machine's song, Killing in the Name of, became the UK's Christmas number one song in 2009, 17 years after the initial release, all because of the fans.
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.
KpaE TIL that in the 1930s New York city planner Robert Moses deliberately built a number of bridges really low so that only cars could go under it - so as to prevent blacks (who mostly used public transport) from visiting New York’s ‘pristine’ beaches
XEWwk TIL Netherlands is the World's 2nd largest food exporter after the USA (which is around 270 times larger in area) The Dutch Farmers produce crops 'sustainably' with low usage of water/pesticides. The usage of Antibiotics for poultry & livestock has also decreased significantly since the last decade