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TIL that later in life an Alzheimer stricken Ronald Reagan would rake leaves from his pool for hours, not realizing they were being replenished by his Secret Service agents

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X4d8 TIL you cannot get HIV from a mosquito or any other insect. Mosquitoes don’t inject the blood from their last meal when they bite. Also, they don’t hop from host to host. After a meal, they go rest and digest. And HIV is destroyed by the insect’s stomach.
R7kp4 TIL that when drivers began using radar detectors, police forces began purchasing radar detector detectors, which led to radar detector manufacturers adding radar detector detector detector circuits to their devices
vPEx4 TIL that in 1992 the US Postal service held a vote over whether official stamp of Elvis Presley should depict Elvis as a young man or later in life. After over 1.2 million ballots, young Elvis won with 75% of the vote, and would become one of the most popular commemorative stamps of all time.
loQjB TIL Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word in the English language. It refers to the habit of dismissing things as useless
0wkMy TIL that there is a statue in Russia that honors all the laboratory mice that have sacrificed their lives in order to further scientific research