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TIL a statement in the legislation that annexed the Republic of Texas into the U.S., allows it to split into 5 states, which so far has not happened

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LQvpV TIL in 1965, a bus traveling to Ankara collided with a truck carrying nitric acid. The collision caused the acid to spill, and panicked the passengers. They evacuated the bus and suffered burns ln their feet. 17 people melted to death after jumping into puddle to save theirselves in distress.
OjgL TIL that FDR founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if every American gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.”
05QR TIL The armorer on the Matrix films disapproved of the Agents using Desert Eagle pistols, calling them pistols made for “wankers”
jAYM TIL that high-fiber diets work to lower your cholesterol in a roundabout way: by interfering with bile absorption in the intestines. Because the bile can’t get absorbed as well, the bile gets flushed out with your poop, and so the body makes more bile salts, using cholesterol as fuel.
ZaM4 TIL that the U.S. government both subsidizes tobacco and funds the largest anti-smoking campaign in America.