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TIL Martin Van Buren is presently the only US President who spoke English as a second language.

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KYrdE TIL the reason that movies are in 24 frames per second is .... SOUND!
VBvQk TIL in 1992 the UK secretly bought a number of Russian T-80 tanks for $5m each through a fictitious trading company for defense research & development purposes. The UK evaluated the tanks on its proving grounds & also sent one to the US where the Americans evaluated it at the Aberdeen Proving Ground
6x6w TIL barcode readers actually scan the white parts and not the black parts
Z8j4p TIL When Nintendo was formed, there were only 38 US states in the Union. The company that would go on to bring us Super Mario and Pokémon was formed in September of 1889.
d8KrQ TIL the week of the Russian apartment bombings, 3 FSB agents were arrested for planting a live bomb in an apartment building. They were later released after the head of the FSB claimed it was an exercise.