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TIL that the Delano family is a prominent American family who’s members include FDR, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses S Grant, and Hunter Thompson

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nWNbd TIL that the mosquitoes that bites people are just only the female mosquitoes and that the males are busy with nectar.
5VmQR Today I learned from a trucking Facebook group that Truckers will soak toothpicks in meth to keep them awake on long drives.
Z8ypa TIL that 70s prog rockers Ambrosia took the lyrics from a 1976 track, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice," from a Kurt Vonnegut novel. When Vonnegut heard the song on the radio, he wrote the band a letter that said, "Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys."
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dJxr TIL that since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, over 2000 nuclear weapons have been detonated by 8 different nations in 60 different locations worldwide.