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TIL of Piso Firme, a project which replaced dirt floors with concrete floors in Mexican slums. Changing the flooring, improved the residents' health and happiness, but also their children's communication and vocabularies.

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xVBlg TIL-The wife of Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wilson became, just for over a year, acting president of the United States Of America after her husband had a stroke at the white house in October 1919, though she was selfish for putting herself before the government, she was still the first female president.
Vr9Q TIL that in the mid-1980’s the Soviet KGB launched “Operation INFEKTION,” aimed at making people believe that the United States invented HIV.
W7G79 TIL that, technically, bananas and pumpkins are berries, but raspberries and strawberries aren't
l76Aa TIL that the HBO Feature Presentation intro song has an official full length version with lyrics
xQao TIL Jeremiah Haralson, the first African American of the Alabama House of Representatives and later a member of Congress, is believed to be the only member of Congress to have been killed and eaten by wild animals