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TIL You can take a tour of the white house with google maps!

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Oov51 TIL the boardgame, Clue (North America), is actually called Cluedo in much of the rest of the world!
gGeb TIL that during American Civil War some soldier’s wounds glowed blue; soldier’s whose wounds glowed had better chance of surviving, and so the glow was called “Angel’s Glow”. Now it is known that the luminescence is due to bacteria that produce antibiotics and that live in nematodes
NArE TIL Bill Nye went from an engineering position at Boeing to a job as a comedian before ultimately becoming the Science Guy
DQ9XD TIL that large earrings (in both ears) were common and fashionable for men in Revolutionary France
E1jVW Today I learned you shouldn't give Asprin to children and teenagers after chickenpox or the flu, it can cause or exacerbate Reye's syndrome