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TIL that Theodore Roosevelt’s mother and wife passed away hours apart. That night the only thing we wrote in his diary was a red X and the words “The light has gone out of my life.“

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p8eVG TIL That Florida has the 'Sunshine Law' it gives freedom of information including arrests, and this is why we hear about so many crazy people from Florida.
epeVk TIL that Urdu was made the national language of Pakistan at independence even though only 5% of Pakistanis spoke the language. Even today, while Urdu is widely spoken and understood, it is only the native tongue of around 5% of the population.
78nN7 TIL during the last year of his life Jim Morrison would drink 3 bottles of whiskey per day
VMmrp TIL that muon imaging could help save the Great Dome of Florence, and might solve the secret of how the heck Brunelleschi built it in the first place