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TIL that the drinking age in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is 18

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nerYd TIL that in 2001, researchers removed 2055 brown recluse spiders from a single Kentucky Home. No one living there was ever envenomed
R7NG6 TIL Of Frances Kelsey, the physician who refused to allow the deadly drug Thalidomide from entering circulation into the US in the 1960's, saving numerous American infants from disfiguration and birth defects
R7rL6 TIL that the very first Medal of Honor recipient, Pvt. Jacob Parrott, received the honor in 1863 after stealing a train just north of Atlanta and riding it north to the TN border. Along the way, they destroyed track switches and cut telegraph lines, severely limiting Confederate communications.
mvNx TIL In Qatar there is a sport called Robot Camel Racing where robots are placed on top of the camels are operated by a joystick, using the right hand to crack whips and the left to pull on the reins. by law they are the only jockeys allowed in Qatar.
17nr TIL that Theodore Roosevelt is the main reason that Americans spell “colour” as “color”.