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TIL that the Sears catalog offered entire houses that were available for mail order beginning in 1908. Most of them are still standing today.

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KYYdE TIL that American Actor Peter Weller (Robocop) has a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art
eYgb TIL that Rose Kennedy-The mother of John F. Kennedy, Outlived four of her children, her husband, 3 grandchildren, 3 son in laws, and Jacqueline Kennedy before dying at the age of 104.
M5yW TIL during the “Tuskegee syphilis experiment” the US Public Health Services studied the natural progression of untreated syphilis despite the “cure” being widely available
ABX7 TIL that astrophysicists have discovered a faraway object that’s hotter than any contemporary theory can explain, a discovery that might require scientists rewriting galaxy operation manuals for years to come.
RWr7 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing, “Coition of a Hemisected Man and Woman”, illustrates the Medieval notion that sperm comes from the brain. [NSFW]