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TIL that at least 21 states do not have a single reporter covering Congress

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rRLrW TIL of a man who legally changed his name to "Winter" in 2006, has played over 7,000 tournament games of Scrabbles, and has visited over 15,000 Starbucks locations, with the dream of visiting every Starbucks in the world.
KYJKQ TIL Since dissecting human corpses was a taboo in the greco-roman world, Galens used Macaque Monkeys to study human anatomy, as he thought them to be the most anatomicaly similar to humans out of all the animal species he knew. This led to some errors, as they were less similar than he thought
j8LM TIL Winston Churchill, when asked if he exercises, said, “I get my exercise serving as pall-bearer to my many friends who exercised all their lives.”
KY6da TIL that a poll conducted in 1998 found that 61% of boys under the age of 10 wished they were Catwoman
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