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TIL petting a dog can lower your blood pressure.

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XEPwE TIL that if Italy was an American state, it would be the 6th largest, after New Mexico.
8aeyL TIL Babe Ruth was one of the first cancer patients to receive radiation and chemotherapy treatment simultaneously
loOYK TIL in 1988 the final history exams for more than 53 million Soviet schoolchildren were cancelled because much of the history they had been taught were lies.
ANLva TIL that in 1947 a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison mutated Penicillium Roqueforti (blue cheese mold), accidentally creating a colorless "blue" cheese. The cheese made from this mutated mold was dubbed Nuworld cheese, and is still being produced for sale in small quantities.
E1Yx0 TIL Queen Victoria's private doctor prescribed marijuana to relieve her menstrual cramps, describing it as "one if the most valuable medicines we possess" in 1890.