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TIL 1890s experts predicted cities would drown in manure - by 1912, cars solved the problem.

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NXkBP TIL about Corrie Mckeague, an Air Force Gunner who disappeared while returning home from a night drinking with friends. The leading theory for his disappearance is that he climbed into a garbage bin to fall asleep, and was picked up and eventually crushed by a garbage truck.
QJAdk TIL that after the photo titled Face To Face was made the man featured in it named Patrick Cloutier was praised as a hero and was promoted.What ensued was him being demoted and charged for Cocaine use ,a drunk driving accident, and starring in a porn parody of the Oka crisis.
ovpW TIL the first female US Senator served for only 1 day, is the only elected female US Senator from Georgia to date, was the oldest Freshman US Senator ever, and was so racist that she said the more money spent educating blacks, the more crimes they committed.
QJkPd TIL the term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's novel "A Pair of Blue Eyes," serialized in Tinsley's Magazine in 1872-3, in which a protagonists is left literally hanging off a cliff.
Z85ma TIL the movie Cruel Intentions 2 starring Amy Adams was originally planned and shot as a series for FOX called Manchester Prep before FOX pulled the plug.