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TIL in the early 1950’s many elementary students in Lake County Indiana and Utah were tattooed with their blood type incase nuclear war broke out.

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b1nN TIL In the 1950’s, during the height of the Red Scare, Einstein offered to appear as a character witness in defense of W.E.B. Du Bois who was being indicted by the feds for failing to register as a “foreign agent.” Einstein’s offer made the judge drop the case.
nWERd TIL The NFL started using Roman numerals for Super Bowl V in 1971 and then went back and renamed the previous championship games as Super Bowls I, II, III and IV.
r1je TIL Google’s cafeteria food prices are set by nutrition facts – One cent per gram of sugar, four cents for saturated fat, a dollar for trans fat…
ePYE TIL that James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Sean Connery’s casting, saying, “He’s not what I envisioned of James Bond looks.” on top of Connery being Scottish. But after seeing Dr. No he was so impressed, he updated Bond’s bio to where he was given Scottish (and Swiss) descent.
R57Z7 TIL after Steve Martin hosted SNL for the first time, his father published a negative review in a local realtor newsletter he worked at, saying, "his performance did nothing to further his career."