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TIL that Eli Whitney's creation of the cotton gin gave the South enough economic power to be able to start the Civil War and his creation of interchangeable parts for rifles gave the North the manufacturing power to win the Civil War

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mLwY TIL the LAPD had Christine Collins committed to a psych ward in 1928 after her son Walter went missing because when the LAPD “found him” 5 months later, she denied that the boy returned to her was her child. The boy eventually confessed to being a runaway. The real Walter was never found.
xVR6b TIL that Bretagne, the last living search and rescue dog who assisted after the 9/11 attacks, was saluted by firefighters as she was being taken into the vet's office to be euthanized due to kidney failure.
BPeD TIL 3.4 million copies of the animated Disney movie, The Rescuers, was recalled in 1999 because it contained two frames where there was a naked woman in the background.
kOyGW TIL: In 1989, the football team of Mississippi segregationist private school Heritage Academy added the first black player in their football conference of “seg” academies. Two schools forfeited rather than play the school with a black reserve running back.
OGxMX TIL you can get wrinkles just from sleeping the same way every night.