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Philadelphia Cream Cheese has never been made in Philadelphia. When it was first created in 1872, the spread’s home state of New York had a reputation for making chalky cheeses while Pennsylvania dairy farms had a reputation for making creamy cheeses.
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11 Jul 2026, 03:46 UTC46 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
During the 1960s and ’70s, Hawaii’s volcanic landscape was used to prepare Apollo astronauts for rugged Moon terrain. Today, NASA uses the lava fields of Kilauea volcano to help simulate the surface of Mars.
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7 Jul 2026, 05:11 UTC52 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
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In 2004 the United Nations made the first addition to Morse Code since World War II—the @ symbol. Ironically, it takes longer to tap it out than spelling A-T.
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4 Jul 2026, 04:19 UTC53 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road during a 20-day marathon, typing it out on a single 120-foot-long scroll of paper. The unusual manuscript sold at auction for over $2.4 million in 2001
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1 Jul 2026, 03:34 UTC50 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
February was chosen as Black History Month because it contains the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
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23 Jun 2026, 09:36 UTC51 views3 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León never looked for the Fountain of Youth. The tale was concocted years after his death by a chronicler who wanted him to appear foolish.
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15 Jun 2026, 03:15 UTC71 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
In 2022 NASA attempted to alter the path of an asteroid 6.8 million miles away by ramming into it with a spacecraft as a test to see if they could prevent one from striking Earth if necessary. They were successful.
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5 Jun 2026, 12:47 UTC65 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 In 1942 Congress authorized the construction of a canal across the width of Florida, so Texas petroleum could be shipped to the East Coast with minimal exposure to German submarines. The canal was one-third complete in 1971 when President Nixon halted the work for environmental reasons.
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4 Jun 2026, 18:10 UTC61 views2 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
Along with half of the U.S. Treasury’s gold, Fort Knox once held a copy of England’s Magna Carta for safekeeping during World War II. Later, fearing the Cold War might cause a shortage, Fort Knox was used to store tens of thousands of pounds of opium
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3 Jun 2026, 14:11 UTC42 views1 reactionsread 11 August 2026 #wtFACT
Except for JFK and LBJ, the remains of every dead U.S. president since Herbert Hoover have been buried on the grounds of their presidential libraries
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3 Jun 2026, 12:45 UTC40 views1 reactionsread 11 August 2026 #wtFACT
Elvis Presley was such a Star Trek fan, he named one of his horses Star Trek
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1 Jun 2026, 13:29 UTC48 views1 reactionsread 11 August 2026 Photo
The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening is from Portland, Oregon. Many of its characters share names with Portland features, like Flanders Street (last name of neighbor Ned) and Van Houten Avenue (surname of Bart’s friend Milhouse).
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