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TIL Levi Strauss made his fortune initially by making pants out of tent canvas for miners during the 1850s Gold Rush

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WeOA TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
o70K TIL Jim Bowie - creator of the Bowie knife - was in an epic duel where he was shot 3 times - stabbed with a cane sword which was deflected by his sternum, and bludgeoned with a gun. With his knife he killed one man and severed the forearm of another. He won the fight and lived.
oJM7 TIL that Portugal’s national sandwich has steak, ham, dry sausage, fresh sausage, cheese - and then it’s covered in melted cheese and beer sauce.
6wEX TIL There are parasitic wasps that produce viruses and inject the viruses into caterpillars along with their eggs. The viruses suppress the caterpillar immune system, protecting the wasp eggs.
ym5p TIL in 1984 McDonald’s ran a promotion where customers scratched off a ticket with the name of an Olympic event on it, and if the U.S. won that event then they would be given a free menu item. The promotion became a near financial disaster due to the Soviet boycott.