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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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kOnlm TIL About Armin Meiwes a cannibal, who found a volunteer victim through internet. He and victim tried to eat victim's penis. After victim was bled heavily he killed him and ate him. They made video tape also and he was arrested a year later when officials traced his advertisement for new victim.
ANRDd TIL the National Covid Memorial Wall is a 500 meter wall created in 2020 along the Thames in London to mark the lives lost to Covid in the U.K. It has more than 240,000 individually hand-painted red hearts, each representing a victim. Many hearts have messages left by the bereaved or by volunteers.
78Rxp TIL: People infected with a parasite that reproduces in cats are more likely to pursue entrepreneurial and business-related activities. In countries with higher infection rates, fewer people cite a “fear of failure” as a deterrent to a new business venture.
WLeA TIL that China harvests the organs of people whom it considers “enemies of the state” sometimes while the victims are still alive and sells the organs on the black market.
Y7Wed TIL in 2006 a jury awarded $24.2m to two men who were severely burned by a 12,500-volt electrical wire when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car. The two men, who were 17 at the time of the accident, argued the companies should've placed warning signs about the wires.