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TIL the lead poisoning rate in children in Cleveland is over double what it was at the hight of the crisis in Flint, Michigan. This is due largely not to contaminated water, but houses built with lead-containing paint that are not properly renovated.

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ZpjWv TIL Martha Gellhorn, wife of Ernest Hemingway, impersonated a medic to go ashore without permission on D-Day. She was the only woman to report from the landing beaches.
e0Ej6 TIL: the knobby bumps on a giraffes head are not bone antlers (as with deer) but are hard cartilage (like the hard part of a human ear), and add weight and firmness that allow the giraffe to use its neck and head as a ball and chain flail and deliver fatal blows.
EJp7 TIL the “bye! have a beautiful time!” guy at the end of American Dad is Security Officer Peña, a Venezuelan-American who worked at the office buildings where Family Guy and American Dad! are produced.
9Y047 TIL that it’s illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get lonely. They’re very social creatures, and are considered victims of abuse if they aren’t allowed to regularly interact with others of their species. Switzerland even has matchmaking agencies for lonely guinea pigs.
nWrB7 TIL the history of Jules Brunet , The historic figure who inspired "the last samurai ". In september 1868 this decorated captain who was a painter and a graduate of Saint-Cyr Polythecnique school decided to unofficially stay in Japan and Fight with the Shogun Forces against the Meiji Empire .