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TIL after President George H.W. Bush and the First Lady were diagnosed with Graves’ disease — and their dog, lupus — the Secret Service tested the White House water supply

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aQkM TIL that Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River after he was kicked out of a restaurant for being black.
7r8jp TIL that the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue” was written by Shel Silverstein.
8eBKX TIL: A political decoy is a person employed to draw attention away from a politician and to take risks on that their behalf.
J1Bb8 TIL The nucli of multicellular fungi cells can migrate, if a fungus encounters something strange like a substance that can't be broken down, nuclei will concentrate in that area to try and find a mutation that can break it down, brute-forcing their DNA, seen also with consuming plastic and radiation
9OGQ TIL that Thomas Jefferson wanted the constitution to be changed ever 19 years because he didn’t want people to be “ enslaved to the prior generation”