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TIL that President Theodore Roosevelt is the only person to have been awarded a Nobel Peace prize and the Medal of Honor.

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LkDLp TIL Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomist who discovered Pluto, had his ashes placed on the New Horizons spacecraft, which flew to Pluto in 2006.
6EP57 TIL of convicted train robber Frank Grigware, who escaped from federal prison in 1910. A short 6 years later, he became mayor of the small town of Spirit River, Alberta. The FBI discovered him in 1933, but his extradition request was dropped due to 'serious doubts' about his original conviction.
4kD4b TIL that there is an international standard for making tea. It's not for making the best tea or how tea should be made, but simply to make a cup of tea that can easily be reproduced by anybody with the right equipment at any time.
6EDgX TIL that Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash caught his mother and David Bowie naked in bed together.
wL4nE TIL of Oland, an island in Germany with a population of only 16 people. Storms flood Oland every week during winter. It has a railway track which was built in 1923 and it takes 20 minutes for Olanders to reach the mainland through it.