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E1mgd TIL each state is allowed to donate two statues to be displayed in the US Capitol Building to honor persons notable in their history
nWrVo TIL that in the 1970s a person died due to gas in their colon exploded during colonoscopy with electrocautery. Colonic gas explosion is very rare these days, due to better bowel preparation (see the first citation for the fatal case study).
loWla TIL a Michigan left is an at-grade intersection design that replaces each left turn at an intersection between a (major) divided roadway and a secondary (minor) roadway with the combination of a right turn followed by a U-turn, or a U-turn followed by a right turn, depending on the situation
R7jm7 TIL Aubrey Plaza played on a rec league basketball team called the Pistol Shrimps, a team that consisted of models, actresses and comedy writers in 2016.
Y7x7Z TIL that FDR led an insurgency against NY's Tammany Hall machine when he became state senator in 1910, costing him the US Senate primary in 1914. Only after he became NY Governor in 1928 could he bring corruption investigations, ending Tammany's more than a century of control over the NY Dem Party.