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TIL John Chambers, the make-up artist portrayed by John Goodman in the movie Argo, not only won the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for his role in helping rescue American embassy personnel from Iran, he created the pointed ears worn by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek.

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YP8d TIL September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. On this day, Krispy Kreme gives their customers a free donut to whoever talks like a pirate and a dozen free donuts to whoever wears a pirate outfit.
e0Lbg TIL cows are often fed chicken litter which contains chicken poop, and chickens are often fed crushed bone meal, which can be crushed cow bones, and all this can lead to the spread of mad cow disease
BgROW TIL about the Great Plains Shelterbelt, which called for planting trees From Canada to Texas to prevent wind erosion. It was one of the largest environmental efforts undertaken by the US Govt.,by 1942, 220 million trees had been planted covering 18,600 square miles.
9wKrB TIL about the "Rabbit Test," a human pregnancy test created in 1931. It involved injecting urine from a woman into a female rabbit. If the rabbit's ovaries showed enlargement upon dissection, it indicated the woman was likely pregnant, with about a 98% certainty. This was utilized until the 1970s.
QJG1e TIL that "public school" in England means essentially the opposite as it does in the US. In the US public schools are the "common" schools funded by taxes. In England they are elite boarding schools.