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TIL first female boxer, first ever elevator & first black athlete to win Olympic gold

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yVnda TIL that Cool Whip, Tang and Pop Rocks were all invented by the same man.
5YY4p Either way, both are gross.
R7Jdl TIL: in the 1960s a boy smuggled in three giant African snails into Florida, and later released them. Within seven years there were an estimated 18,000 of the creatures in the wild, taking 10 years and over $1M to eradicate.
9ywQ TIL in 1923, Germany’s hyperinflation was so high, the exchange rate went from 9 marks to 4.2M marks to $1 USD. One German worker, who used a wheelbarrow to cart off billions of marks that were his week’s wages, was robbed by thieves who stole the wheelbarrow but left the piles of cash on the curb.
64Xm TIL that due to the fact that only 1 out of 50 subscribers to porn sites are women, some billing companies will automatically flag an account as fraud if a female name was used to register