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TIL the White House press secretary has more DUI charges than White House press conferences

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79Kx TIL King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan (1919-1929) once gave a public speech in which he said “Islam did not require women to cover their bodies or wear any special kind of veil”. At the conclusion of the speech, Queen Soraya tore off her veil (hejab) in public.
kJOZm TIL of “Nobel Disease”, a tendency for Nobel Prize winners to adopt pseudoscientific ideas later in life
xVGZw TIL that there is a link between regular Benadryl usage & the risk of getting dementia.
9YZmX TIL about the Georgia Guidestones, a set of huge granite slabs in Elbert County, Georgia commissioned by anonymous benefactors. The 5 slabs contain messages in 12 languages, and are intended to help rebuild human civilization after a global catastrophe.
a8XPy TIL that the International Space Station is the most expensive project ever built by humans, costing about $150 billion in total and around $3–4 billion per year to operate, and that NASA has contracted SpaceX for $843 million to build a vehicle to safely deorbit it around 2030.