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ep7WL TIL the first paramedics in North America were African American
kbJd TIL Home Improvement for the SNES did not include a real manual. Instead, it included a fake manual with a sticker reading “Real men don’t need instructions”.
E1JAd TIL former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) met both John Quincy Adams and a young JFK. He'd also relate stories of his grandmother watching the Redcoats invade colonial America.
XEbxX TIL: From the 60s until program retirement in 1992, the US military kept ready some cannon-fired nuclear weapons which could fit in any standard 155mm Howitzer. Each M45 AFAP round cost at least $1.25 million. AFAP stood for Artillery Fired Atomic Projectile.
WkN5d TIL about Zofia Rydet, a Polish photographer who, at age 67, decided to try to shoot the interior of every home in Poland. Over the final 19 years of her life, she shot 20,000 images. She said, "The simplest, most ordinary documentary picture becomes a great truth about human fate."