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TIL The white paint for the White House is made by the same German company that also makes the paint for Buckingham Palace

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gMNM9 TIL that an old form of pregnancy test involved injecting rabbits with urine and then killing the rabbit to investigate its ovaries.
wrm6 TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it
D09J TIL there’s a colony in Brazil populated by descendants of between 2,000 and 4,000 Confederate refugees who chose to leave the United States after they lost the American Civil War.
nvPG TIL A man named Joe Lozito fought off a serial killer on a subway of New York, while police were aware they stood behind the conductors doors until Lozito disarmed him, the NYPD apparently has no duty to protect the citizens of New York
gbyD TIL that the longest anyone has ever survived in a shipwrecked raft was 133 days by a Chinese man named Poon Lim. He survived the ordeal by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water. He died exactly 23 years ago at the age of 72.