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TIL Hoover’s washing-machine factory built the Sinclair C5; 14,000 were made but only 5,000 sold before production stopped after eight months.

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5Gmn TIL: In the 1970’s two factions: hippies and cops played football against one another in a series of games immortalized as “Pigs vs Freaks”.
YW9B TIL that after their only son died at the age of 15, Leland Stanford founded Stanford University and told his wife that “the children of California shall be our children.”
VmpB TIL in Iran although homosexuality is illegal sex changes are not: The government will pay half the money for the operation to a person who wants to change their sex seeing it as ‘a cure for homosexuality’, as a result Iran performs the second most sex changes in the world- second only to Thailand
e0JQg TIL that in the year 774 a "red crucifix" was seen in the sky, after sunset. This was likely caused by an extremely powerful solar flare. If a similar flare hit the earth today, modern human civilization could collapse due to wide spread power outages and damage to the power infrastructure.
JYKb8 TIL The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed an estimated 675,000 Americans (far more than the 53,402 who died in combat in World War I). The impact was so profound as to depress average life expectancy in the U.S. by >10 years & may have played a significant role in ending the World War 1 conflict.