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TIL the U.S. federal government has an official color palette

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LkR4P TIL the last words of the French Grammarian Pere Bouhours: "Soon I shall, or soon I will die: both are correct."
pe1b TIL the doctor who claimed there was a link between vaccination’s and autism got his doctoral license revoked.
b9GE9 TIL Barbie was modeled after a racy gag gift for adults and besides being just lovers, Barbie and Ken are named after a real life brother and sister: the son and daughter of the creator, Ruth Handler.
neEL7 TIL that in 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.
DDXg TIL that in the process of trying to catch serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet police ended up solving more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders and 245 rapes.