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TIL about Martha Cothren, winner of the 2006 Veteran of Foreign Wars Teacher of The Year.

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b9yBp TIL that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States.
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VBkQm TIL that while Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse any blood products/transfusions, they accept solid organ transplants, like kidneys, pancreas, etc.
VMm1G TIL, disco music is a scientifically used “mild stressor” used in animal studies to assess the animals’ responses to stress.
Rkj6 TIL: You would need to smoke approximately 15,000 joints in 20 minutes to die from cannabis poisoning.