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TIL that two US Presidents were citizens of the confederacy, John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson

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jNMdE TIL of Albert Stevens, a house painter that was unwittingly injected with plutonium and survived the highest known dose of radiation in any human
rNdJd TIL John Madden, the football coach, did not in fact create the Madden women’s shoes brand
jNYRQ TIL of puppy pregnancy syndrome (PPS). When a dog bites a person, male or female, and they become convinced that puppies are growing inside them... and PPS in some regions hinders treatment of rabies
ANOp7 TIL about a Cervical cerclage. It is a treatment for cervical weakness, when the cervix starts to shorten and open too early during a pregnancy causing either a late miscarriage or preterm birth.
gM6lD TIL Oliver Sipple was former US marine who thwarted an assassination attempt on President Ford was outed as gay by Harvey Milk, despite his request to keep his sexuality private. As a result, Sipple was disowned by his family and eventually drank himself to death.