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TIL Benjamin Franklin used to talk to his own Gout attack, who he named "Madam Gout"

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e0wGb TIL Phil Collins donated the world's largest private collection of Alamo artifacts to the state of Texas. It included a fringed leather pouch and a gun used by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie's legendary knife.
jNgRQ TIL that a "dead" Egyptian snail was put on display in a British museum. Four years later, the "dead" snail awoke.
woLNE TIL Andrew Jackson managed to get the U.S. debt to $0 in 1835
N7Rj1 TIL in 2019, a UK government agency declared that anyone with at least 30,000 followers on social media is classified a 'celebrity' and can't breach advertising regulations.
dypd TIL: According to a study the 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene, also known as the warrior gene, is found in 0.5% of White males and 4.7% of African-American males