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TIL Yellowstone hot spring pools are acidic and can dissolve an entire person

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WkR6N TIL that the December 19, 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live was hosted by the singer Paul Simon and US Senator Paul Simon.
e0BJD TIL when Queen Victoria first moved to Buckingham palace, it was dirty and cold as staff were lax and lazy and chimneys smoked so much that fires were dampened down.
JYAAl TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
8vxV TIL that in 2001, Ashton Kutcher thought he was stood up by his date but she was actually murdered. He even saw the pool of blood but ‘thought it was red wine.’
k7M5 TIL in 2013 Montana proposed a bill that would allow sheriffs to arrest FBI agents for arresting people - and charge them for kidnapping