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TIL that there used to be a President of the Continental Congress.

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WvXB TIL the original order of assassins killed their targets in broad daylight in crowded areas, with a rule to not kill any civilians. A contemporary Jewish historian wrote of them: “they are believers of the word of their elder and everyone everywhere fears them, because they even kill kings.”
x6Vj1 TIL Reyn Guyer is a game designer whose first hit was Twister. In 1969, he invented "the world's first indoor ball". It was made of polyurethane and named after the foam used by off-roaders to cover their roll-bars: Nerf.
d8ZZ9 TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived
PYkNe TIL that juvenile crocodiles can climb trees
XEVZE TIL that before becoming president of the American Pediatric Society Saul Krugman experimented on mentally disabled children by purposefully infecting them with Hepatitis