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TIL that mammals are older than flowers
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TIL - An American woman lost all her teeth due to fluoride poisoning from tea. She'd been having a pitcher of ice tea made with 100-150 bags every day for 17 years.
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TIL about Gladys West, a black woman who was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame earlier this month for creating a precise mathematical model of the Earth in the 1980's that would be critical for the development of GPS technology.
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TIL - Pavlov’s House was defended by 25 men for two months against German attacks so frequent that the Russians would have to kick over piles of dead Germans so they couldn’t be used as cover by the next wave.
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TIL Eleanor Roosevelt liked to pack heat. Weapon of choice? A .22 Smith & Wesson.
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TIL That in the USA, due to the way the Electoral College functions, a presidential candidate can win the presidential election with only 22% of the popular vote