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TIL there was a koi fish named Hanako that lived for 226 years

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8kZL TIL In George Washington’s farewell address, he warned against foreign influence in domestic affairs, bitter partisanship in domestic politics, permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, and called for men to move beyond partisanship and serve the common good.
ZBVY TIL that in 19th-century America, the belief that sausages were usually made out of dog meat was so widespread that they started to be called “hot dogs”
pE1Z TIL Bing used Google to populate Bing search results.
5o58 TIL the metallic smell of coins isn’t from the metal but decomposing oils from our skin.
x6Nb1 TIL Al Capone contracted syphilis when he was 20, which is thought to have contributed to his fatal heart attack at 48.