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TIL of the Plum Island Pink House. The wife in a divorcing couple forced her ex-husband to build a replica of their family home as part of the divorce settlement. She didn’t specify the location, so he built it in the middle of a salt marsh and plumbed it solely with salt water. It’s uninhabitable.

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b6RZE TIL that 50% of dementia risk is related to modifiable risk factors.
GYwMj TIL about the "Linxia cheetah", a fossil cat from China that is now known to have been a forgery. The Linxia cheetah was constructed using a combination of assorted bones and plaster.
78rJp TIL a grandmother who donated her body to science ended up being used in blast test for the US Army.
x6e60 TIL the estimated odds of a structure in Tornado Alley taking a direct hit from a tornado is 5,000 to 1
16J4d TIL in 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally invented Vulcanization when he dropped some rubber in a flying pan