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TIL the “fake marijuana” leaf of the boy suspended in Bedford turned out to be actual marijuana

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NQpb TIL that there are more current members of the United States Senate that were born before World War 2 started (11) than were born after the first Moon landing (6)
YpPlZ TIL that we humans have been dependent since 1977 on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs to keep our medicines safe. The crabs have been 'bled' for a chemical which is used to test for bacterial contamination in drugs. Finally, pharmaceutical companies are committing to a synthetic version.
6EBE8 TIL Neil Armstrong had to go through US customs when he came back from the moon.
v1m44 TIL of John Frederick Parker, the bodyguard assigned to Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination, not only was he 3 hours late, but he left his post to get a drink at a saloon next door. It was during this that Booth entered the box seats where Lincoln was sitting and shot the president.
QNv0p TIL The world's oldest love poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin a.k.a. Istanbul 2461, was written in a cuneiform tablet and used in sacred fertility rituals.