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

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OodX1 TIL Eminem was so attached to his childhood home that he had a model of it he would take on tours.
m1pBo TIL the first practical roadside breathalyzer was used in 1931 and it was called the Drunk-o-meter.
5Y4a9 TIL of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack Dalles, Oregon, where over 700 people were poisoned with Salmonella so they could not vote in a local election.
VBOEZ TIL that, in 1972, several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Oklo, Gabon. They worked around 1.8 to 1.7 billion years BP, continued for a few hundred thousand years, and produced around 100kW of thermal power
G6AN TIL of Dr. Liviu Librescu, Romanian-born Holocaust survivor and scientist. During the Virginia Tech massacre, he survived being shot through a door five times while aiding students in escaping the gunman. He later died of his injuries and was awarded Romania’s highest civilian honor.