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TIL Honey Boo Boo is banned from selling Girl Scout cookies
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TIL there was a 1934 plan to dam and fill the Hudson River, adding 10 square miles of land to Manhattan
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TIL that Bill Cosby was instrumental in ending the practice of "painting down," in which instead of using black stuntmen for black actors, white stuntmen performed in blackface. Cosby refused to have "painted down" stunt doubles for his "I Spy" role and only worked with stunt performer Calvin Brown.
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TIL That Gorilla Glass was invented in 1952 and the idea of using it was shelved until 2005.
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TIL that the American Revolutionary War extended to the modern-day Bahamas where Continental Marines conducted the Marine Corps’ first ever amphibious landing in Nassau to seize gunpowder.
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Today I learned about the rescue of Bat 21 Bravo, the "largest, longest, and most complex search-and-rescue" operation during the Vietnam War.