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TIL Broccoli only became available in grocery stores in the UK and Ireland in the late 1970s

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XNNR TIL William Shatner recorded a wake up call that was played for Space Shuttle Discovery and its crew for their last day docked at the ISS. Saying “Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission:…”
wLEEo TIL Creator of the American Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, spent the rest of her life and wealth campaigning against the holiday feeling it became too commercialized and lost the sentiment behind it.
OoXbR TIL that half of all sailors on a given trip were expected to die of scurvy during the 1600s.
5RKD TIL the reason your body temp raises while you have a fever is because most bacteria cannot reproduce above 102°F
LQLkr TIL It has been reported that besides Abe Lincoln, the ghosts of William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, and Thomas Jefferson also haunt the White House. Lincoln’s ghost hasn’t been seen since the 1980’s.