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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt believed that American currency shouldn’t carry the motto “In God We Trust.”

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POje TIL that Bridgetown, Barbados is the only city outside of North America that George Washington visited (with his brother Lawrence to treat his Tuberculosis). While there, 19 year-old George survived Smallpox, giving him immunity to the disease which later killed so many of his Revolutionary solders.
BgWLL TIL that Harvard tried to incorpate MIT.
QnQ9 TIL that nitrous oxide was used primarily as a recreational drug in English parties for over 4 decades before doctors saw its potential in medicine.
69gBY TIL that in 1700, India had the largest GDP in the world including more than all of Western Europe combined.
WkQ98 TIL that Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the miracle drug, Penicillin, almost gave up on it entirely because it was very hard to extract. It was only with the help of Sir Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, whom developed a method of mass production, could penicillin be made available to millions.