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TIL that Jack Ruby left his Wiener Dog in the car when he went to kill Lee Harvey Oswald

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R76xw TIL that the CDC is based in Atlanta because it was started to fight malaria in the South. It did this by spraying homes (inside and outside) with DDT and draining wetlands. Starting in 1946, malaria was eradicated in the US by 1951.
oMD8 TIL Iran’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950’s with the help of the United States.
wLjOM TIL: Cilantro is the leaf and coriander is the seed of the same plant.
OGwX TIL You literally cannot be more than 115 miles from a McDonald’s in the contiguous USA.
X0v6E TIL China’s Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only had 1 wife and refused to have concubines after his mother was murdered by one of his father’s consorts.