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TIL that a completely blind atheist was Oklahoma's first US Senator.

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kOePd TIL In 1952, President Truman gave the first televised tour of the White House. He explained its history, stopped in front of paintings and furniture to tell stories, and even played the Steinway piano in the East Room
kOoQe TIL that a woman refused to board a lifeboat when the Titanic was sinking as she refused to be parted from her dog. Several days later, passengers on the SS Bremen passing by the wreckage in the water, saw the body of a woman tightly holding a large shaggy dog in her arms.
W79WX TIL Smoke Inhalation causes most house fire deaths
p5ne TIL that the idea of a literal six day creation has been rejected in Catholicism since the second century.
YOr7 TIL James Earl Jones was a functional mute until high school, briefly studied pre-med in college and was a US Army Ranger during the Korean War.