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TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly killed by Japan's top fighter ace

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VMLkD TIL Mary Jane Rathbun, better known as Brownie Mary became known for illegally baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDs patients in the 1980s. She was baking more than 4000 brownies per week. She was also known for wearing polyester pants suits and having a 'sailors mouth'.
Z8A1G TIL that red grapefruits were created by growing grapefruit trees next to radioactive material, mutating their DNA to make them more desirable
wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...
XEQZQ TIL In 1948, Quezon City was declared capital of Phillipines until 1976, when former President Ferdinand Marcos transferred the title to Manila. In 2013, a councilor urged Congress to make Quezon City the capital again
Abeo TIL that antivenom is actually obtained by using milked venom from said species and injecting it into a sheep where antibodies are made and harvested from its blood