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TIL that during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”

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xyDo TIL that in 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%
VyP8 TIL that the Rosetta spacecraft, while studying comet 67P, discovered electrons cause the rapid breakup of water and carbon dioxide molecules erupting from the surface, not photons (light) as previously thought.
grDwD TIL that during the Industrial Revolution, “knocker-uppers” were employed to wake people up for work by tapping on their windows with long sticks or pea shooters, serving as human alarm clocks before the invention became widespread.
eMn5 TIL that Kyoto was originally at the top of the atomic bomb target list during WW2, but was personally removed by U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. He had previously been to Kyoto on his honeymoon.
KeN6 TIL Jules Verne wrote the novel “Paris in the Twentieth Century” back in 1863 and described a world of glass skyscrapers, high-speed trains, cities of elevator-equipped, gas-fuelled cars, subways, and a worldwide communications network.