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TIL that the president’s feces are collected when they’re not using the restrooms at the white house because foreign agents can analyze it for drugs, medications, and illnesses.

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Oo8Ja TIL Daler Mehndi, the man behind the Tunak Tunak Tun song is currently serving a 2-years prison sentence for human trafficking.
b1VN TIL of the Capitol Crawl, when over 100 handicapped people shed their wheelchairs & crutches and crawled up the stairs of Washington’s Capitol building, inconveniencing some senators and forcing them to adopt the ADA.
pYmBA TIL that in 1956, the US Air Force lost control of an unmanned drone and tried to shoot it down. Jet fighters fired 208 rockets at the drone. They all missed; the rockets started fires on the ground, and the drone crashed by itself when it ran out of fuel.
M76P8 TIL: in 1819, Anton Diabelli asked all the important composers of the Austrian Empire to write a variation on his waltz. While most composers wrote only 1 variation, Beethoven alone composed 33, creating his "Diabelli Variations," now regarded as one of the greatest works for the piano ever written
OoxnY TIL Most planes are not able to fly while empty due to balance issues, sand bags and spare tires are used to fix these balance issues