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TIL that the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre is home to the four largest doors (each bay door is 139 metres high) and largest American flag (63.7 metres by 33.5 metres) in the world; the doors take 45 minutes to open.

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LBB9 TIL that Ben Franklin published a list of 200 synonyms for “drunk”, which includes “Nimptopsical”, “Cherubimical”, and “Been too free with Sir John Strawberry.”
JY9P1 TIL that owls have legit legs under their coats.
kOQo7 TIL Ronald Regan used the slogan "Lets make America great again" in his 1980 presidential campaign.
nW6kP TIL that the San people, one of the most genetically diverse group of people in the world, have separated from the rest of humans around 200,000 years ago, just a 100,000 years less from the lowest estimate of when humans separated from Neanderthals.
mZbM TIL that in 1956 a 95 year old man named Samuel Seymour was the mystery subject on the original “I’ve Got a Secret” game show. His secret? He had witnessed the Lincoln assassination at Ford’s Theater.