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KOD0w TIL The first settler to successfully grow commercial Tobacco was John Rolfe in Jamestown, in Virginia in 1609. In 1614, the first shipment was sent to England. In 1638, 3,000,000 pounds was being sent annually. By the 1680s, Jamestown was producing over 25,000,000 pounds for export to Europe.
o557 TIL In 1998, Sony accidently sold camcorders that could see through people’s clothes
ADpGn TIL that Mr. Rogers had a deep friendship with Koko, a gorilla who knew over 1000 words in sign language. He even had her on his series titled "You and I Together", dedicated to helping children get over their fears of meeting new people or being in different situations.
yQb8a TIL in 1956 an F-11 test pilot inexperienced with the consequences of supersonic flight, literally ran into his own gunfire and shot himself down
4Owg TIL that one bear - Bart, a 9'6’’ Kodiak - starred in dozens of Hollywood films opposite the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Annette Bening, Ethan Hawke, Gregory Peck, and John Candy. His biopic was narrated by Brad Pitt, with whom he worked in Legends of the Fall