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TIL the reason Morton salt has the little girl with the umbrella as their logo is because Morton discovered that adding magnesium carbonate to table salt made it pour more freely and not clump up, even in humid or rainy weather. Hence their slogan, “When it rains, it pours. ”

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W7R7o TIL Goodyear Rubber & Tire Co. produced rubber technology for making auto tires to shoes. It contains a special polymer including sustainable, renewable soybean oil for better grip, durability, enhanced stability, and traction
Mw90 TIL in 2007, Stephanie Lenz posted a YouTube video of her children dancing to “Let’s Go Crazy.” Universal sent YouTube a takedown notice, claiming it violated copyright. The court ruled that copyright holders must consider fair use before issuing takedown notices for content posted on the internet.
kJVJB TIL there is a massive abandoned underground command network throughout the former Yugoslavia. One of these was the NORAD equivalent.
Y79Gr TIL in May of 2024 the U.S. Senate authorized more flights to Washington National with an 88-4 vote. At the time senators Kaine & Warner said the Senate ‘abdicated its responsibility to protect the safety of the 25 million people’ who annually fly through Reagan airport, known as DCA
b9lWp TIL as recently as 2014, almost 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 1 in 3 wild boars in Germany are still too radioactive for humans to consume. In fact, some are more than 15 times the legal limit and the contamination is thought to originate nearly 700 miles away.