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TIL 120 years ago the most pressing environmental threat was cities being buried in 9 feet of horse manure in 50 years.

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woA5Y TIL Germany was made the hosts of the 2006 FIFA worldcup after the editor-in-chief for the satire tabloid "Titanic" sent a fax to one of the representatives voting on the matter with promises of a gift basket worth ~20 USD if he voted for Germany.
aworM TIL about the Battle of Jumonville Glen, in which a young George Washington ambushed a French Canadian outpost. This became the opening battle of the French and Indian War.
8jpK TIL of John Barrier, after a bank teller refused to validate his 50 cent parking because he was dressed poorly, he withdrew his million dollars from his account and took it to the bank across the street
Qmkp TIL famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to renowned A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
dOv8 TIL Dick Van Dyke’s hobby is doing CGI animation, and he even made special effects for an episode of Diagnosis Murder in 1997.