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TIL in Britain, the Victorian's Added Secret Messages to Their Postcards and Letters.

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LkwAv TIL that the exterior of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon is not stone. It is beveled wood siding painted with lead paint and coated with sand so as to resemble sandstone blocks.
M7X0B TIL Iran is the only country where it’s legal to sell your organs, so demand always meets supply. A kidney is worth $231 USD and the government contributes part of the cost.
XE6rj TIL about The Epic If Gilgamesh. The oldest surviving work of literature in existence dating back over 4,000 years. It features a demigod hunting for immortality and an account of a great flood very simular to the biblical one.
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