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TIL that Queen Victoria considered Former President Millard Fillmore to be the handsomest man she'd ever met.

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yVYLV TIL about the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, an anarchist collective teaching people how to make DIY versions of expensive pharmaceuticals at a fraction of the cost. Four Thieves Vinegar Collective call what they do “right to repair for your body.”
6E9aX TIL the song "Weightless" by Marconi Union is supposedly the most relaxing song in the world and is said to reduce anxiety.
8e8x8 TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.
nejvd TIL that more people died on the last day of WWI than on D-Day, despite commanders knowing that the war was essentially over.
0wAV5 TIL: Paypal can and will place a hold on your funds for 180 days and permanently limit your business account at their discretion. They do NOT have to give you any reason for doing so according to their User Agreement. Even if you want to fix whatever they say is wrong, you CANNOT know what to fix.