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TIL the White House acknowledges 11 hauntings throughout the building including Thomas Jefferson playing the violin and President Tyler proposing to his wife.

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p8E48 TIL the brain cannot feel pain because it doesn't have pain receptors called nociceptors. Headaches come from nociceptors in the protective tissue between the brain and the skull.
VMQJk TIL Liechtenstein started WWII with an army of 80 men, and came back with 81 after meeting an Italian dude in the mountains
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8LAb TIL That a trucking company got over 900 speeding tickets, another 500 tickets for ignoring stop signs and other signals, and killed 32 people in just 24 months. Yet they are rated “satisfactory” by the agency that oversees transport.