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TIL that a Dove is just a white Pigeon.

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VMVmB TIL about Alice Ball, an African American woman who, in 1915, at the age of 23 revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating an soluble & injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.
kNJB TIL in the original Game of Life board game “Suicide” was a possible outcome.
p8ODp TIL that Wilford Brimley isn't just a spokesman for diabetes. He is also a respected actor whose career spans for than half a century.
wo8J8 TIL that the reason that "The Office, An American Workplace" (the in-world documentary in The Office TV series) began filming was to document the fallout from the suicide of a Dunder Mifflin employee named Tom Peets (mentioned briefly in S2 E8). The focus was later changed to the Scranton branch.
oRYjK TIL the Largest Source of Power Outages in the US is not Lightening or Drunk Drivers, but Squirrels.