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TIL While there is a clear two term limit on the office of US President, there is no term limit on the office of US Vice President.

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4kpvb TIL that term fin de siècle, meaning end of century referenced the anxiety people felt, about moving into the twentieth century from the 19th, and is expressed in such works as Dracula.
YppZG TIL many EXIT signs contain a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, tritium gas. This allows for radioluminescence, which makes the sign glow as a result of low-level beta radiation from the tritium decay.
xVOGk TIL: In 2017, the CIA released over 470,000 files that were on Osama Bin Laden's hard drive to the public with the exception of copyright material and some porn. It was found he had Final Fantasy 7, Ice Age, and Resident Evil along with several BBC and CNN documentaries on him.
J8Z4 TIL: When asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers”
rRNWW TIL that 'decimate' is actually a reference to the roman practice of punishing large groups of people (e.g. battalions that performed poorly) by dividing the cohort into groups of ten, having each group cast lots, and have the nine individuals kill the single unlucky individual in each group.