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TIL that people "Mailed Dimes 'By The Truck Load' to FDR's White House to Cure Polio" | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

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QJAdk TIL that after the photo titled Face To Face was made the man featured in it named Patrick Cloutier was praised as a hero and was promoted.What ensued was him being demoted and charged for Cocaine use ,a drunk driving accident, and starring in a porn parody of the Oka crisis.
1aJm4 TIL the last surviving rescue dog from 9/11 died in 2015
Bgvpr TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina actually has a coastline and is not landlocked by Croatia. A small town in Herzegovina, Neum, connects to the ocean.
kJvG7 TiL Flea nearly quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers to teach full time at a music conservatory. The "most painful part of quitting" that stopped him from doing so was the idea of telling Anthony.
gME7D TIL cats are able to fit into any space that they can fit their head due to the fact that they do not have a rigid collar bone, rather a free floating collar bone that allows them to fit into tight spaces.