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TIL Tiffany & Co, a luxury jewelry and specialty retailer, started out as a stationery and fancy goods store

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0wxO5 TIL: Swing music never really fell out of popularity, it was shut down by ASCAP in 1941. ASCAP demanded more royalties from broadcasters- they refused. ASCAP banned their repertoire and demanded preapproval of set lists and written solos for live broadcasts. This effectively ended the Swing Era.
JZm8 TIL that tomatoes, although botanically a fruit, are legally a vegetable as a result of the 1893 Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden, as “they are seen as vegetables because they are usually eaten as a main course instead of being eaten as a dessert.”
D1X0P TIL Logisitics is the longest film ever made and has the run-time of 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours)
j6e6X TIL: The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia was originally named after a botanist (Fuchs) but renamed Magenta to celebrate a battle victory.
MVb TIL that a snake measuring 50 feet in length once roamed the earth, crushing its prey with a constricting force equivalent to lying under the weight of one and a half Brooklyn Bridges