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TIL: the clear fluid that fills blisters is blood plasma

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j6dkj TIL that King Cobras are not even actual cobras, despite the name. Also, they are world's longest venomous snakes.
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NDWE TIL after President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke in Oct. 1919 his wife (Edith Wilson) began to screen all matters of state and decided which to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she de facto ran the executive branch of the government for the remainder of Wilson’s second term.
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