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TIL Peace Corps Now Allow Same-Sex Couples To Serve Openly

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neB1b TIL Mango sap is caustic
D1NoY TIL that Roman Emperor Caligula was actually called Gaius. The nickname Caligula meant ‘little boots’ and came from the fact that his father like to dress him up in child-sized armor. He hated it.
6EWOZ TIL red tape was actually used to bind government documents and you had to literally cut through them to get stuff done. And you can buy pieces of US red tape from the National Archives.
e0Ld6 TIL 10-year-old Olivia Farnsworth has never been able to feel pain or hunger, and cannot sleep without being heavily medicated. Due to her symptoms revolving from Chromosome 6 Deletion, she had been able to withstand a car accident without distress.
9YlM TIL Osama Bin Laden played Volleyball, And was apparently really good at it too