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TIL If you zoom in on the White House on Google Maps, it will allow you to go inside and “walk” around certain areas.

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yoyw TIL that when the Waltz was introduced it was considered vulgar and indecent, suitable only for “prostitutes and adulteresses”
4kVe5 TIL Robert Downey Jr has a black belt after doing Wing Chun for 15 years
rRwZ0 TIL that when Norway was occupied by the Germans in WW2, the Nazis made the Lebensborn program where Norwegian girls were forced into mating with Nazi officers and having their children. One of the Lebensborn women grew up to be Frida Lyngstad, who was a member of the Swedish band ABBA.
9JDm TIL Having your heart broken will partially resonate in the part of the brain that responds to physical pain, so taking some Tylenol can actually help with heart break.
knnW TIL Coca-Cola was originally sweetened with wine. Before the wine was switched out for sugar, it was known as “Pemberton’s French Wine Coca”. It was a 1886 prohibition law enacted in Atlanta that caused its inventor, Dr. John S. Pemberton, to rewrite the formula.