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TIL Monopoly was created “to demonstrate the evils of land ownership.”

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VMbM0 TIL (initially from my textbook) that the Cheaper by the Dozen family was inspired by the Gilbreths. The mother Lilian (a psychologist), and the father Frank (an engineer) were famous for many other things besides the book one of their daughters wrote about the family.
okrR TIL that Reddit is the 55th most popular website on the Internet
l7OA7 TIL US President Lyndon Johnson installed a shower in the White House that had the intensity of a firehouse and got so hot it regularly set of the fire alarms. One of Nixon's first acts as president was to have the shower torn out.
DK4g TIL Harvard University is older than calculus.
PRkG TIL that a dozen years after Hurricane Katrina, Amtrak has still hasn’t restored coast-to-coast service in the South despite the rails being up and running.