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TIL that only 9 US Presidents to date were not millionaires

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loVBA TIL Scott Joplin, who brought syncopation to modern music through ragtime, doesn't own any of his music. He received 10 free albums, and one cent per album sold.
PXGg TIL about operation Vegetarian, a 1942 plan by the British military to drop linseed cakes infected with anthrax on German fields where they would be eaten by cows and thus infect the civilian population that ate them, the test site in Scotland remained uninhabitable until the 1990’s
rR7vw TIL that psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and the psychedelic effects that go with them may have been one reason that caused the rapid evolution of humans from early apes.
wLMAP TIL Gundam Factory Yokohama is constructing an 18-meter-tall, 25-ton Gundam robot. The plan is for the robot to have a steel frame and carbon resin exterior and be powered by electric actuators, achieving “Gundam-like movement”
Z8dDG TIL there was X-Men cartoons that came out almost 3 decades ago.