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TIL Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother both died on the very same day of unrelated health issues

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5n8r TIL Dan Rather was injected with heroin by a police officer, in a police station
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5Yann TIL Whales and Dolphins evolved to live on land, then about 50M years ago thought "nah screw this" and went back to the ocean
yV5jX TIL the amount of excess cheese that U.S. dairy farms produced (as of 2018) would be nearly the size of the U.S. Capitol building.
ORm7 TIL A man tried to rob two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.