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TIL the White House has a Flickr account and they post behind the scenes photos all the time

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ADaxl TIL that the unit of one mile comes from "a thousand paces" (mille passus)
ANA14 TIL "Chief Heat Officer" is a thing now
DQ7jY TIL the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Nazi Germany caused about 17 German deaths, but as many as 13,000 Jewish residents killed, and resulted in the remaining 50,000 residents being sent to camps
6Ee17 TIL Evan Chandler, the man who accused Michael Jackson of molesting his son, committed suicide 4 months after Jackson's death.
DQB0g TIL Smokey Robinson's 1970 Motown classic "Tears of a Clown" was inspired by the 19th century Italian opera "Pagliacci"