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TIL The White House was painted with white lead paint in 1818

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b6WM0 TIL that while mixing their hit song "Africa", Toto keyboardist, Steve Porcaro wrote a new song on the side, inspired by his daughter. While the melody was set, it never materialized as a song until it was picked up by another singer. The singer was Michael Jackson. The song was Human Nature
m9Qo TIL of Laika, the first dog in space. Her journey was actually a journey into hell. The insulation came off the craft and the dog spent five hours in extreme stress and 100+ heat before succumbing and dying.
Zp8ov TIL that prairie dogs have a complex language where they can form sentences
7rDOO TIL Sir Henry Irving was the first actor to receive a knighthood — also, his larger-than-life attitude was so frightening his assistant, Bram Stoker, based the character Count Dracula on him
awAmb TIL tea was so important to wartime Britain, that in 1942 the government attempted to purchase all the tea in the world