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TIL that F.D.R was directly responsible for founding The March of Dimes, which prompted the U.S. Government to place his image on the dime in 1946. The charity was started by friend of Roosevelt, Basil O'Conner to raise money for the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.

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LQ54p TIL the Phantom time Conspiracy theory claims the time period AD 614 to 911 never existed. The Theory claims these extra 300 years of History were fabricated in the middle ages to legitimise Otto's claim over the Holy Roman Empire. According to the theory we should be living in the year 1726.
mx0Wy TIL about David Vetter, a child who lived with a severely weakened immune system meaning that he spent the majority of his life inside a sterile bubble. In 1997 researchers from NASA create a specialized space suit for him, allowing him to walk outside his bubble for the first time.
epe0g TIL one bad apple in a bunch will release ethylene, ruining all the other apples
rNB9x TIL that Veronica Hamel, public defender Davenport in Hill Street Blues, was the model in the last ever tv cigarette ad in the United States.
69owZ Today I learned about the Los Alfaques disaster where a boiling-liquid expanding-vapor explosion from a road tanker instantly destroyed everything in a 300ft radius killing 215 people