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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was once shot while delivering a speech and instead of going the hospital he spoke for 90 minutes telling the crowd “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”

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D7mP TIL that seat cushions at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA are designed to have the same absorption properties as the average person so that the hall has the same acoustics when empty or full– an advantage for musicians, who usually rehearse in an empty hall
NX8VP TIL that the castaways in Gilligan's Island never escaped the island in the show's original run. In a 1978 TV movie they make it off the island, only to end up stranded again. A final 1981 film features the Harlem Globetrotters visiting a resort the castaways set up on the island after being rescued
ekvD TIL: The quietest place on earth measures -9 db. It’s located in an acoustics and architecture test facility in Minnesota. Most people can’t stay longer than about 20 minutes and emerge disoriented and unsettle.
gmy9 TIL that in the UK, restaurants MUST supply free tap water if they serve alcohol.
NX0gP TIL John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction. Pemberton's experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton's French Wine Coca and later Coca-Cola.