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TIL: 129 years ago today Nellie Bly went undercover at a lunatic asylum to uncover the truth about how people were begin treated

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neRAr TIL admission to the LBJ Presidential Library is free if your first, middle, or last name is "Lyndon"
gr0pA TIL: Long Hundred is 120 and was previously referred to as Hundred in Germanic languages
E1xnP TIL Austria has an opt-out organ donor system, in which over 99% of individuals are registered donors. Germany's opt-in system has just 12%.
W70ML TIL Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school.
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