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TIL: The White House runs linux on all of its computers.

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9wdNr TIL that a treatment for food impaction (food stuck in throat) in 1983 was to, effectively, turn the patient's throat into a baking soda volcano
N4je TIL: After the 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933, Yuengling sent a truckload of “Winner Beer” to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in appreciation, which arrived the day the amendment was repealed — particularly notable since Yuengling beer takes almost three weeks to brew and age.
WkVW9 TIL 'Steve Jobs' is the name of an Italian clothing company created in 2012 when the creators realized that Apple never trademarked Jobs' name.
lo5JA TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
rgOy TIL - In 1999 Russia orchestrated a series of ‘false flag’ bombings as justification to invade Chechnya.