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TIL Archaeologists have discovered Ancient Hebrew artifacts in North America. Research indicates that they predate the European discovery of the continent by several hundred years, at the least.

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jNW0M TIL Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black
MVrW TIL that a 1992 study of 100 different sites in 22 states showed that when the speed limit was raised the number of accidents decreased by 6.7%. When the speed limits were lowered the number of accidents increased by 5.4%.
PMXV TIL that due to J. Edgar Hoover’s excessive abuse of power, Directors of the FBI are now limited to 10 years in office.
9YQVr TIL that the lethal dose of chocolate for a human is 22 lbs, or 40 Hershey Bars.
5rk9 TIL that that the X-Mansion from the X-men film series was the same mansion set used in Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison.