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

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AAVw TIL Eminem is a world class Donkey Kong player
R5bj6 TIL in Henry Fords' childhood farming was manual. He wanted to "lift the burden of farming from flesh and blood and place it on steel and motors." Ford was the only automotive firm to sell cars, trucks and tractors simultaneously from 1917 to 1928.
6pZY TIL there are 365 beads in a military dog chain and 52 on the small chain, used for captured personal to keep track of the days and weeks.
rRA4e TIL that some birds are capable of forming complex sentences as part of their own language, the first non-human creature ever known to do so
4kXng TIL that Scrabble in Welsh language was not a popular game. A store in Wales was unable to sell a single copy for at least 2 years.