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TIL: We still make medications from extracts of human urine

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p81YN TIL If France were to return to monarchy, their king would be styled "Louis XX".
GA5W4 TIL The first Presidential Car to pass Secret Service demands was the Sunshine Special - a V12 1939 Lincoln Model K limousine that was used as the official state car by United States presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman which cost only $108,426 in 2023 dollars.
VWMG TIL As a result of where fighting began in 1914 and ended in 1918 on the Western Front (Mons, Belgium), the first and last soldiers of the British Empire to be killed in the First World War are buried in the same cemetery.
JYmW1 TIL: Two teenagers girls seduced and hunted Nazi's like "Dexter"
GZK1 TIL that several airline companies have or used to have policies where they refuse(d) to allow unaccompanied children to be seated next to adult males on their flights