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TIL Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) lived long enough to shake hands with both John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy

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8aDXK TIL that your delivery order from DoorDash or Grubhub could come from a “dark kitchen” basically the food you ordered is coming from a big name restaurant under another name. Examples being Pasqually’s Pizza being Chuck E. Cheese and It’s Just Wings being Chili’s.
GAo85 TIL of Mallows Bay, where over 200 wooden ships were abandoned and burned at the end of WWI. Now the shipwrecks are a thriving ecosystem and the site is a National Marine Sanctuary.
X0ZvX TIL A polar bear swam continuously for 687 km (426 miles) straight in search of sea ice.
gM76y TIL that Worm Charming is a type of profession
7rZZ TIL that the crystal structure of an AIDS virus had been discovered in ten days using an online video game called Foldit. This is something that had stumped scientists for over 15 years.