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TIL The last time it took more than one ballot to elect the Speaker of the House was 100yrs ago in 1923.

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166mr TIL The only children to survive the Titanic without a parent were two brothers aged 2 and 4. Their father kidnapped them from his ex-wife and boarded the ship with a fake name. The father didn’t survive and for weeks the boys were known as the Titanic Orphans until their mother was found.
e0Vdg TIL that Schlitz was the number one beer in America in the early 1950s and then they started changing ingredients to cut costs. By 1975, consumers complained that the beer was forming "snot" in the can, and by 1981 the company folded.
OZ77 TIL That the announcer in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (who also voices Crazy Hand and Master Hand) is Pat Cashman, who was the announcer for “Bill Nye the Science Guy.”
VM7B0 TIL that parts of Denver, CO are still contaminated due to a multiple fires and leakages at the Rocky Flats Plant. The Rocky Flats Plant manufactured Nuclear Weapons parts for the US Government from 1952 to 1992.
epKyg TIL that, in the 1930's, the only commercial airport serving New York City was in New Jersey. To protest this, NYC Mayor LaGuardia once refused to deplane in NJ because his ticket said "New York City," so they flew him to NYC.