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TIL that the TARDIS materialisation sound is actually a house key scraping along a piano wire

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bwNa TIL that the guards at The Tomb of the Unknowns have never left their posts due to bad weather. They stayed outside during Hurricane Isabel in 2003.
Dv1p TIL that Christopher Columbus was never painted. Therefore, every image that we have of him is a fake and only an assumption of what we think he looked like.
GYeZN TIL emergency departments in the UK are called A&E and sometimes even the CW—in the US those are TV channels. In hospitals they stand for “accident and emergency“ and “casualty ward“.
MelyV TIL George Washington was essentially killed by his doctors. Due to them draining 40% of his blood ultimately leading to his death.
78Q0r TIL that Calcifying Nanoparticles are self replicating organic particles found in blood and smaller than any known bacteria