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TIL that former Former President Benjamin Harrison’s daughter, Mary Harrison McKee, served as First Lady after Benjamin Harrison’s wife died while he was in office

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nWL9o TIL that In 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 left a tiny statue on the moon called Fallen Astronaut, alongside a plaque listing the names of 14 astronauts and cosmonauts who had died. It remains the only memorial to lost space explorers on the moon, silently honoring their sacrifice.
awKk9 TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution.
VBwQ8 TIL that despite retiring in 2021, starting this season baseball player Chris Davis will receive from the Baltimore Orioles $9.16 million a year for the next 3 years. He'll receive $3.5 million a year for the following 7 years and starting in 2033, he’ll receive $1.4 million a year until 2037.
d8kNB TIL that during WWII nylon was rationed leaving women with no stockings, and since going out bare legged was a fashion faux pas, women had to get creative and began painting on their stockings. Some even used eyeliner to draw a trompe l’oeil seam on the back of their legs.
rRye4 TIL Pat Keller was the first person to Kayak off of Linville Falls. One of his professors documented the descent and the photographs ended up in a couple of magazines . . . which were seen by the National Parks Service who fined Pat Keller $5,000.