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TIL about the fake/real grape flavor dating back to the 1800’s

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8alYK TIL in one of Thomas Jefferson's letters to James Madison in 1789 he stated that the Constitution and laws should expire after 19 years. This was to allow the new generations to learn from the past and change accordingly, it was also to prevent older generations from "binding" subsequent ones.
oBxrY TIL that in 1974, Deborah Stone, an 18 year old Disneyland ride operator was crushed to death between a stationary wall and rotating wall on the newly opened America Sings ride. Her screams were thought to be part of the ride, and before anyone discovered her, she was already dead.
NXnpQ TIL half ton lions roamed North/Central America and people hunted them.
e0JE6 TIL Senator from Massachusetts Edward Brooke the first African-American ever to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, spoke personally of his return from World War II and inability to provide a home of his choice for his new family because of his race.
N0ob TIL Harvard prof. Dr. Edward Clarke asserted that women should not be allowed to attend college. If young women studied too much, they would divert blood away from the uterus to the brain, rendering themselves “irritable and infertile.”