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TIL that president Ronald Reagan had 720 bags of jelly beans delivered to the White House each month and used them as a way to quit smoking

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8aAY4 TIL In 1972, Neil Armstrong visited the town of Langholm, Scotland. In which he was read a 400 year old law declaring any Armstrong caught in the town should be hanged
4k0xX TIL that boxing rounds were changed from 15 to 12, after the match between Ray Mancini and Kim Duk-koo, which would result in the death of the latter. Mancini was heartbroken after the fight and considered quitting boxing.
mx5Vy TIL in the 1950s, when Polio was an epidemic, people who used iron lungs had to click to signal a nurse when they couldn't breathe after power went out. Then a nurse would come and manually operate the machine.
46ao TIL that humans can theoretically survive on a diet entirely composed of nothing but potatoes and butter.
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