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TIL the secret society “the skull and bones” illegally posses the bones of Apache warrior Geronimo at their Yale chapter…

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PYyPg TIL Ronald Reagan's Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Rex, took a disliking to the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House. Thought to be haunted by Lincoln's ghost, the dog would refuse to enter the room and sometimes would stand outside it and bark through the doorway.
7k5Z TIL the Aston Martin factory only uses one robot; it applies adhesives to bond aluminium body panels together and is nicknamed “James Bonder”
kONLW TIL that the US senate used the same ivory gavel for over 170 years till president Richard Nixon broke it during a late night debate about nuclear power in 1954
Eyxo TIL scientists in Antarctica have set up a rugby pitch to play on when they want to relax. They have set up teams of American and New Zealand researchers to compete each year for the Ross Island Cup, which New Zealand have won 26 years in a row.
x8Q1 [TIL] Pumpernickle means “devil’s fart” in the Westphalia dialect of German.