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TIL the role of U.S. First Lady does not need to go to the president's wife Prior First Ladies include nieces and daughters-in-law of the sitting president.

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OoRQg TIL There is a wire called an eruv that hangs above Manhattan encircling much of the borough, acting as a symbolic boundary that turns the public streets into a private space, much like one's own home that allows Jewish people to move about freely without having to worry about breaking Jewish law.
kObp5 Today I learned "Bill and Ted" from the "Bill and Ted" movie series are officially not stoners but "they have a nice outlook on life, they like people [and] their friendship"
epgb5 TIL the Eiffel Tower was repainted for the Paris Olympics. It cost an estimated $60 million dollars. 25 painters a day for 18 months straight. It’s the 20th time it’s been repainted.
oadL TIL there is an informal strategy called the “small penis rule” used by fiction writers to avoid libel suits by writting the character like the real person but with a small penis so nobody claims the character represents them
b81N TIL that conquistador Hernán Cortés founded a hospital in Mexico City to serve Aztec warriors who were wounded fighting the Spanish — and the hospital still operates today.