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TIL the 9/11 rescue dogs became so depressed finding only dead bodies, rescue workers had to stage fake rescues to boost their morale

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e0G9D TIL that the term “cervical” does not only refer to the cervix of a woman, but is also used to allude to a person’s neck and several other “neck-like passages” within the body (see comment).
OGjYa TIL In 1805 in a private correspondence, Thomas Jefferson admitted to offering his love to a woman, but personally denied everything else the Federalists accused him of, including fathering the children of Sally Hemings.
VLeD TIL that if you took all the gold in the world and made it into a cube, it would only measure 20.5m on a side
nZBG TIL There was a time when AMD and Intel CPUs used the same socket, and could run on the same motherboard.
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