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TIL that under the American Blue Laws of the time, ice cream sodas weren’t allowed to be sold on Sundays. To circumvent this rule, they invented the ice cream sundae.

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6EMEX TIL that when Lumber Baron William E Boeing created the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917 the company depended on designs from their first aeronautical engineer hire, Chinese MIT grad Wong Tsu. He worked for a year with the company before returning to China. He fled to Taiwan when Mao took over China
v1Wrx TIL, Bethel Church legitimately believes they can raise the dead through prayer. In 2019 their followers unsuccessfully tried to revive a deceased 2 year old
j6VWp TIL of Xicolatada, a festival in a French village dedicated to the tradition of drinking Hot Chocolate as a hang over cure after drinking on the Feast of the Assumption.
m6bM TIL Wealthy Ancient Greeks sometimes sent their slaves to sit on the public toilets (made from slabs of marble) to warm it up “in anticipation of their arrival”
MwPa TIL that no special effects were used to achieve zero gravity in the movie “Apollo 13”. Through 612 flight parabolic, approximately 4 hours was spent filming on board NASA’s “Vomit Comet” The KC-135, an aircraft designed to train astronauts for the weightlessness of space.