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TIL that Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign web site is still online.

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Mln8 TIL that there’s a large black stain at the back of the chair, which everybody assumes is Lincoln’s blood , but that’s not the case. Research on the stain has shown that it’s hair oil. Some of the other stains are water damage.
vRZ4 TIL the shooting star visible in this clip from Jaws was real, and not an optical effect [source: IMDb.com].
KO9eQ TIL: 7.4% of Switzerland's exports is blood.
4kXPJ TIL British duo The Chemical Brothers used to call themselves The Dust Brothers (from the US duo of the same name) on their early days. They had to change it from Dust to Chemical shortly before releasing their 1st album because the US Dust Brothers threatened them to sue them if they didn't.
rdgo TIL Anders Celsius originally created the temperature scale with 100 degrees as freezing and 0 degrees as boiling. Carl Linnaeus, another scientist, waited until he died to change the scale to what it is today.