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TIL People named Isabella receive free lifetime admission into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

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rRO9y TIL: Monty Python's Graham Chapman was bisexual, defining his attraction as "75%/25%, favoring males"
Ypk4B Metallic microlattice is the lightest metal structure ever created. It was developed by scientists at HRL Laboratories, jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors. While it's 99.99% air, its structure makes it strong and could be used in future planes and vehicles.
b9xJp TIL that in 2016, Congressman Peter Welch won both the Democratic and Republican primaries in his state.
xrdk TIL there us no safe amount of lead exposure at all; the body thinks it’s calcium, so it goes wherever calcium would. It doesn’t get filtered out - it just accumulates.
8eROZ TIL that the civil rights act was not the first one in the U.S., but rather the second one, as the first was overturned by the supreme court in 1883.