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TIL our calendar skipped 11 days in September of 1752.

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xVPK7 TIL Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on the planet, priced at $39 million a gallon
OoWx1 TIL of the elaborate watch commissioned as a gift for Marie Antoinette 10 years before her execution. It was finished 34 years after her death.
xvbD TIL that during construction of the Panama Canal, Ancon Hospital, one of the best hospitals in the tropics, kept potted plants in its open-air atrium in bowls of standing water to keep away ants, not realizing that the mosquitoes that bred in such water were the carriers of malaria and yellow fever.
b077 TIL in June 1984 the prime minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, drunkenly announced on national television that a snap election was to be held in a month’s time. With 93.7% of voters turning out for the election, he lost. The occasion is sometimes remembered as the ‘Schnapps election’.
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