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TIL: In New Orleans, for a few hundred dollars, you and your friends can rent a brass brand and have your very own police escorted personal parade.

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5YlyD TIL that Mirrors didn’t exist until circa 500 BC so the only way people knew what they looked like was by looking at their reflection in still water. Thus, water was a symbol of the self and a symbol of death.
M74M0 TIL that Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees kept getting their breast milk stolen
9YrGB TIL in February 14, 1990 as the Voyager 1 completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, NASA commanded it to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan. The Earth is seen as a Pale Blue Dot.
gMxGD TIL that during the high point of plane hijackings in the 1960s, a plane was hijacked every 6 days in the United States.
QpJ6 TIL Gerber made a failed line of food for adults called Singles very similar to baby food