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TIL the US President uses a different pen to sign each piece of legislation. Each pen itself becomes a historical artifact and becomes a gift to be offered to those who helped create that piece of history.

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dDN8Q TIL that a performance artist named Lucky Diamond Rich has held the Guinness World Record for “most tattooed person” since 2006. His body is completely covered in tattoos, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin.
W85B TIL in 1996 a Canadian mining company announced a massive gold find, going from a penny stock to $280 and raising $6 billion in investment. It was found the land was worthless and the lead geologist had been shaving gold off his wedding ring and adding it to drill core samples.
KY6yE TIL that Micky Dolenz of The Monkees was the owner of the third Moog synthesizer ever commercially available, and used it to perform "Daily Nightly" in the first use of a synthesizer in a rock recording.
RKAa TIL There is a man who digs up antique denim left in old abandoned silver mines. When a miner got a new pair of work pants, he’d cut up the old ones and use them for lagging around pipes. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for jeans, jackets and even scraps of denim
DQx8j TIL that the largest urban old-growth forest in the United States is Wesselman Woods. It is located in the middle of Evansville, Indiana. 190-acres of virgin forest - tree cores date back to the 1650s and 90s for some of these trees. 🌳