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TIL There is an Island in the Bahamas Inhabited Only by Swimming Pigs

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D16Lg TIL Kennedy and Lincoln were not the only US presidents to suffer brain damage while in office. Teddy Roosevelt suffered permanent damage to his sight after a boxing match with his military aide staged in the White House.
NBxP TIL WD-40 was originally designed to protect the exterior of Atlas Missiles from water and corrosion. It worked so well that employees started to sneak it home to use on other things.
VMVmB TIL about Alice Ball, an African American woman who, in 1915, at the age of 23 revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating an soluble & injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.
kOg6W TIL France had the most extensive network of optical telegraphs, and the inertia from this made it one of the slowest countries to adopt electrical telegraphs.
gMAa4 TIL A woman donated her kidney to her boss, who then fired her when she took too much recovery sick leave