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TIL that sliced bread was banned in the US for a couple months in 1943

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GY7Rg TIL of the Peshtigo fire. It burned over a million acres while claiming at least 1500 lives. It occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and has largely been forgotten.
78m1X TIL that in 1878, US Supreme Court Justice Ward Hunt suffered a stroke which thereafter left him unable to either attend court sessions or to render opinions. Yet he refused to resign for another 4 years, his sole reason being to stay long enough to claim his pension.
m1NZo TIL Apollo 11's Solar Wind Composition Experiment consisted of an aluminium foil sheet fixed to a pole facing the Sun. Studied by Swiss physicist Johannes Geiss, it was the only non-American experiment to be part of the mission and carried out on every moon landing
B7LK TIL that the sabre-tooth squirrel featured in the 2002 film Ice Age was fictional… until a real one was discovered in 2011.
epOk4 TIL when Al Smith won South Carolina with 91.39% in 1928, it was the worst result for a winner of South Carolina in a presidential election after 1896 and prior to 1944.