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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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LbO9 TIL that During WWII, two polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews from the Holocaust by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis from entering their town.
E7lP TIL that, in all 403 of his episodes, Bob Ross used the same 8 colors on his pallette so that his audience didn’t “have to go out and buy 1500 different kinds of colors” in order to paint along with him each week.
mxO9M TIL in 1974 Howard Hughes helped the CIA raise part of a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet - all without the Soviets knowing. They recovered two nuclear torpedoes, documents, and the remains of 6 sailors - who they respectfully buried at sea.
epWKb TIL: In 1993, a Russian lunar rover (Lunokhod 2) that has been on the moon since 1973, was sold to Richard Garriott for $68,500
loppa TIL when all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertantly causing an extinction