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YJVv TIL Andrew Jackson was the only U.S. President in American history to pay off the national debt
nE6B TIL There are cults in the South Pacific that believe if they paint USA on their chest and make wooden guns, that god will rain cargo from the skies
9wBGD TIL Before we started using extracts from horseshoe crab blood to test pharmaceuticals for infectious agents, the test meds were instead injected into rabbits; contamination would be proven by the rabbit getting a fever.
v1814 Today I learned that club moss spores are so hydrophobic, if you pour them onto water, then stick your hand in the glass, it'll come out dry. Also, that it's super flammable. I heard it on a podcast but had to see it myself, and found this:
ep066 TIL Arnold Reuben, whom the sandwich is named for, also invented New York style cheesecake.