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TIL that blood plasma is America's 10th largest export surpassing that of trucks.

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loraA TIL that an aged Teddy Roosevelt promised to die in battle if political rival President Woodrow Wilson would allow him to create a Rough Riders unit for WWI. “I told Wilson that I would die on the field of battle, that I would never return if only he would let me go!”
1aDx7 TIL of the Nightingale Pledge, a modified Hippocratic Oath named in honor of Florence Nightingale, US nurses take at their graduation ceremony
VBywG TIL that Christopher Columbus refused to accept he had discovered a new continent and insisted it was India until his death. He was initially denied funding by Portugal and Castile because scholars had correctly calculated that India was far farther away than his calculations.
8oYa TIL Danny McBride’s grandmother invited her friend’s over to watch the premiere of her grandson’s TV Show “Eastbound and Down.” Afterward, none of her friends talked to her anymore.
YjNZ TIL Guy Fieri Officiated 101 Same-Sex Weddings in a Single Weekend