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TIL that the reason Washington, DC and other US cities have such high amounts of pollen is because of "botanical sexism," where far higher numbers of male trees are planted since female trees have seeds and fruits, which are harder to clean up.
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TIL - When the Blues Brothers was released in 1980, execs who controlled over half the theaters in the country refused to book the film, citing the number of black actors.
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TIL Katherine Johnson was called a “computer” early in her NASA career, and her math helped send the first American astronaut into orbit and later helped put humans on the Moon.
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TIL in Stockholm (Sweden) they made a giant phone tower in the late 1800s to connect 5500 phone lines over the rooftops.
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TIL the fastest ocean liner ever built was the SS United States, which operated from 1952 to 1969.
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TIL about the Hoff crab, a species of deep-sea squat lobster that lives near Antarctica.
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