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TIL that the DEA has a museum and an exhibit dedicated to Harry J. Anslinger

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EgmW TIL Fall (aka Autumn) is the only season to have two names because the switchover from one to the other happened during the founding of the American colonies
ADNmg TIL One of the most common ways in which cold sores are spread is through coming in direct contact with someone who has one such as by kissing someone with HSV-1. You cannot give your dog cold sores, or vice-versa but there are feline and canine versions of the virus
YQM7 TIL There’s a water reservoir in space that’s 100,000 times bigger than our sun with 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
4k6yN TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie "Genesis II" identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.
vax TIL that George C. Scott watched a hockey game at home and went to sleep in lieu of attending the Academy Awards the night he won best actor for Patton