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TIL Secret Service agents lived in Chelsea Clinton’s dorm, and posed as students, while she was an undergrad at Stanford

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jX9n TIL that wearing a Peyton Manning #18 jersey to school in Denver gets you sent home, because the numbers 13, 14, 18, 31, 41, and 81 are banned in the district due to their association with local gangs.
7ddr TIL The porcupine is the only native North American mammal with antibiotics in its skin. Those antibiotics prevent infection when a porcupine falls out of a tree and is stuck with its own quills
9w0OB TIL Tampa Bay Lightning was owned by the Yakuza in its early years, constanly short on cash, and the NHL even doubted that owner Takashi Okubo, was a real person
8aGJ8 TIL Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with feces, called it 'Artist's shit' and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees.
BrAYL TIL: GDP (PPP) per capita, the United States is the 15th richest country in the world