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TIL that the The White House became one of the first wheelchair-accessible government buildings in Washington during FDR presidency

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lo1PB TIL that spaghetti alla puttanesca means “spaghetti in the style of a whore”
N7EON TIL about Emilie du Châtelet, a scientist who in 1749 feared that bearing a child at 42 would be the last thing she did. She worked furiously on a magnum opus that would eventually change the world of physics. Within days of completing her work, she gave birth to a daughter and died soon after.
LQYyp TIL that a Saudi Arabian man called Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari went from 1,340 (610 kg) pounds in August 2013 to 710 pounds (320 kg) in six months. By November 2017, he was 150 pounds (68 kg) and is still alive today.
PYBme TIL that Yamato, the largest battleship in history at 863 feet in length, was so big that she had forward- and aft-pointing arrows painted in the interior so sailors don't get lost
wokv8 TIL that in the United States, crayfish are often referred to as crawfish, crawdads, fiddlers, crawdaddies, or mudbugs. As of 2018, 93% of crawfish farms in the US were located in Louisiana. In 1987, Louisiana produced 90% of the crayfish harvested in the world, 70% of which were consumed locally.