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TIL that American President Woodrow Wilson and his wife Edith kept sheep at the White House during World War One to keep the lawn neat and reduce gardening costs.

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DQVpV TIL about when two Lithuanian pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, tried to fly a plane named Lituanica from New York to Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933. The Lituanica made it across the Atlantic but fatally crashed 636 km short of the goal.
Doaj TIL that the CIA hired a magician to train agents in sleight of hand techniques for use in their mickey-slipping LSD experiments…
b9PJj TIL Beavis & Butt-head used to provide commentary on real-life music videos. The band “Winger” took offense to the comments about one of their videos. Upon hearing this, a new character, Stewart, was created to be constantly ridiculed. Stewart's shirt reads "Winger."
Eg9Od TIL Leonardo da Vinci designed a 12-barreled rapid-fire type of machine gun which was intended to be both lightweight and quite mobile on the battlefield. While he worked on such weapons for the benefit of his patrons, he also did so out of intellectual curiosity.
jN48M TIL The World's Oldest Complete and surviving Book Was found In Bulgaria and its +2.600 years old