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TIL during ww2 acclaimed tv Chef Julia Child was on the team that invented shark repellent to keep sharks away from sea mines intended for German U- Boats. This marked Child's first foray into the world of cooking.

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YoVZ TIL that a Texas school district is so small that one person “has been the superintendent, the principal, the third-to-sixth-grade teacher, the ESL instructor, the special-ed teacher, the repairman, the contractor”. Divine, Texas (about 20 students)’s school bus is a used white limousine.
kQN4 Today I learned that under Mao Zedong, a dentist was executed for malicious slander for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
Wk4rA TIL that the Nazis' anti-Jewish Nuremburg Laws were somewhat influenced by the American South's Jim Crow laws.
XExKP TIL that humans have approximately double the lifespan of our ape cousins because of a gene that we evolved to regulate the effects of our meat-rich diets.
KAla TIL that Walt Disney originally planned to continually release Fantasia while replacing old segments with new ones, so that viewers would never see the same film twice.