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7ryQM TIL A person may serve as President of the US in excess of two terms for a maximum of ten years if the president acted as president for two years or less in a term where another was elected as president.
PYwoO TIL of Thomas Jones, a 14-year-old who broke into Buckingham Palace in 1838 and was caught with Queen Victoria's underwear stuffed down his trousers. After breaking in twice more, Jones was sentenced to hard labour, and after incarceration on a prison ship would later become the town crier of Perth.
a80ko TIL that an umbrella was used by Bulgarian spies during the Cold War to assassinate a dissident by firing a pellet filled with ricin
wLRjW TIL Colorado researchers have 3D printed miniature Lego-style bone bricks that can heal broken bones. The blocks, which are the size of a flea, help regrowth and can be interlocked like toy bricks. They hope to scale the technology and use it to supply laboratory-made organs for human transplant.
l7Xp7 TIL that generations of incest turned members of the Fugate family blue. They lived in eastern Kentucky’s Troublesome Creekand their peculiar skin color was caused by a metabolic condition affecting hemoglobin.