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TIL Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks

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AgMw TIL in 1882, a house, 5 ft wide, 4 stories high and 104 ft deep was erected on Lexington Ave, NYC to “spite” the neighbor, and block his views. It was known as “Spite House”.
ZAWQ TIL the phrase “to pass with flying colors” originates in ship terminology. When victorious at sea, ships coming into port would fly their nation’s flags – or colors – to give an early communication of how they fared.
699nm TIL there was disagreement over the danger of black widow spider bites until a 1933 experiment where professor Allan Blair allowed himself to be bitten. Blair also hoped to determine whether multiple bites would build immunity, but the first bite proved so painful that he decided against it.
rRQOe TIL George Washington thought one of the greatest threat and enemy to America would be political parties and would be the cause of weakening the American government.
NXLnE TIL about Gungywamp, an archeological site in Connecticut consisting of ruins and artifacts that is theorized to have evidence of Pre-Columbian European settlement of the Americas, including 5th century Irish monks or Norsemen