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TIL that Teller(the silent half of Penn and Teller) taught Greek and Latin for 6 years before going into show business fulltime

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W7G6d TIL in 1991 a warehouse in Wisconsin holding over 4,000 tonnes of butter caught on fire. After five hours the melted butter flooded and formed a "butter river" that was 2-3 feet deep and as much as 5 feet deep in some places. The fire lasted for 8 days.
0wKVN TIL one of the earliest depictions of a person wearing sunglasses is of a scientist in 1772. Yellow/amber-tinted spectacles were also a commonly prescribed item for people with syphilis in the 19th & early 20th centuries because sensitivity to light was one of the symptoms of the disease.
Ky9E TIL Adolf Hitler committed suicide 69 years ago today
5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
a0g9 TIL that Richard Nixon was gifted two Giant Pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) after his historic visit to China in 1972. They were given to the US as a token of friendship between the two countries.