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TIL that President Obamas Secret Service codename is Renegade

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EgPd0 TIL the original verse for the recipe of Ezekiel bread in the Bible says includes baking it over cow feces.
X0PLR TIL Coca-Cola in the US is sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, not sugar. I guess that accounts for most of the difference in taste between American and British (and other) Coke.
NRXb TIL that the man on NASA’s CAPCOM that said, “Challenger, go at throttle up” just before it exploded was the pilot on the very next shuttle mission.
p8mEZ TIL In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby. After five months of the transplant, the uterus showed no sign of rejection, ultrasound scans were normal, and the woman was menstruating regularly. The fertilised eggs were implanted.
J5l4 TIL there’s a genetic disease that causes people to stop sleeping and eventually die