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TIL that Florida Governor Rick Scott once gave out a sex line phone number instead of a meningitis information line number during a cabinet meeting. This was amidst a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak.

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Zp5mv TIL in 1989, 20 tonnes of cocaine and $10 million in cash were seized from a warehouse in L.A. At the time, it was the largest drug seizure ever at a single location and it was unguarded with the door secured by a single $6 padlock. In today's money, it'd be worth over $4.7 billion.
mD5y TIL that Abraham Lincoln suffered from a lifelong “melancholy,” a condition we now call clinical depression. His suffering was so severe, that his community had to put him under a “suicide watch.”
VMvgk TIL that in 1777 there was a plot to replace George Washington with a "Horatio Gates". Although there is no direct evidence of a conspiracy, it is still quite an interesting moment in history. Especially the ending with the pistol duel between Conway & Cadwalader. Had never heard of this story
Ynkd TIL a high-school girl derived equations showing that in order to fold anything in half, it must be pi times longer than its thickness
aM0A TIL That Gangkhar Puensum, a mountain in Bhutan is the worlds last unclimbed mountain. It’s because at first since 1994 it was prohibited in Bhutan to climb mountains higher than 6000m, in 2003 they banned mountaineering completely.