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TIL The White House has an estimated market value of over $390 million, and would cost $2 million a month to rent.

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jNBXn TIL that a Scottish woman can't feel pain or anxiety and is very happy and optimistic all the time all because of a rare genetic mutation which increases the brain chemical "Anandamide". She was given 1 g of paracetamol or acetaminophen after a trapeziectomy where people usually need morphine.
9YpkX TIL A professor at Indiana University launched a system of gaining experience points through classwork instead of giving out traditional grades.
16b4O TIL Yahoo still exists! Which suprised me.
VBd9D TIL Henrietta Wood who was enslaved in the American South until her owner, Jane Cirode, took her to Ohio in 1844. After being re-enslaved in 1853, Wood successfully sued her captor, Zebulon Ward, in 1869 and was awarded $2,500 – the largest slavery restitution in U. S. history.
R0a9 TIL bacon bits are vegan