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TIL Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.

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b6ja4 TIL that in the 19th century, photographers used a technique called "combination printing" to create seamless images by merging multiple negatives, allowing for artistic compositions and overcoming technical limitations of early photography.
WkbKB TIL the Lenape called the Iroquois Mengwe, which literally translates to glans penis.
MgEW TIL following the Volstead Act that began the Prohibition, crime rose by 24%, drug addiction by 44%, and federal expenditure on prisons rose by a staggering 1000%
R51D1 TIL that prior to the release of The Omen (1976), the knowledge that 666 is the number of the Beast from the Book of Revelations was relatively obscure and had to be explained in the movie, which introduced this notion to the wider popular culture.
VMdnZ TIL of Aditya and Poonam Singh, an Indian couple who have been buying acres of farmland around the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve & letting the forest grow back for the past 20 years.