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TIL that consuming too much nutmeg can alter your perception of reality

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DQLWp TIL In 1998, business mogul Bill Daniels donated his private mansion, called Cableland, to be used as the official residence of the mayor of Denver. It has never been used in this role.
W79lY TIL Male bees and wasps cannot sting you. A stinger is a modified ovipositor.
GA7k7 TIL An estimated 50.000 Irish were made into indentured servants by Cromwell after he took Ireland in 1653.
awPoy TIL that during 1944 Harry S. Truman wasn't the original VP candidate. Henry A. Wallace, FDR's VP from 1940, was up for reelection in 1944 and was progressive but conservative leaders of the DNC were concerned for FDR's health and realized that the VP would replace FDR so they replaced him w/ Truman
7dNx TIL that the janitor of the Air Force Academy was a Medal of Honor winner who went unnoticed for almost ten years until a cadet stumbled across his story in a history book. When the janitor passed away, he was buried at the cemetery and is the only non-air force enlisted man buried there.