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TIL Jackie Kennedy undertook a historical renovation of the White House that sought to replace the cheap furniture bought by the Trumans with pieces of WH historical furniture. She famously asked the Eisenhowers to give back the Washington era China they had taken home after leaving office.

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9wvjM TIL that in 2015 a 46 yr-old woman accidentally took 55 mg intranasally of pure LSD, equal to 550x the normal recreational dosage. She "blacked out" for the first 12 hours and felt "pleasantly high" for the second 12. A day later her chronic foot pain ceased, helping her to end her morphine habit.
VdP4 TIL that during the 1890 census, Minneapolis and St. Paul kidnapped each other’s census takers to keep either city from outgrowing the other.
Aya7 TIL Pablo Picasso’s 1932 painting “La Lecture” depicts Picasso’s mistress asleep with a book upon her lap. The painting led to the breakup of Picasso’s marriage after his wife saw it at an exhibition and realized that the facial features (though highly stylized) were not her own.
9j8B TIL that scientists have discovered a ‘lake’ in the Gulf of Mexico with water five times as salty that is highly toxic. For animals (and people) who swim into it, these toxic concentrations can be deadly. Only bacterial life, tube worms, and shrimp can survive
rR8rM TIL that the dragonfly is arguably the worlds greatest predator to ever exist, having a success rate of up to 97% (Compared to African Lions at 30%) and having no major evolutionary morphology change for around 320 MILLION years, making it one of the most evolutionarily successful animals ever