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TIL Every president has their own secure/private ZIP code that goes directly to their office

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dQKE TIL with only 40 digits of PI, you could calculate the circumference of the entire universe to within a single hydrogen atom.
XEQKj TIL in Canada radio stations dedicated program blocks in off-peak hours to Canadian music. These program blocks became known as "beaver hours"
0wGkA TIL the British killed a higher rate of American prisoners during the American Revolution than the Japanese did during the Second World War
Bgrxy TIL that Germany's two largest private emergency responders, the "Malteser" and the "Johanniter", used to be the crusader knights' field doctors in Jerusalem
D7Yj TIL that it is hard to fool the brain by providing it with ‘energyless’ sweet flavours. Our pleasure in consuming sweet solutions is driven to a great extent by the amount of energy it provides: greater reward in the brain is attributed to sugars compared to artificial sweeteners.