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TIL when entering your address for credit card verification, you only need to type in the street/house number. Like 1600, not 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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XE65j TIL about a festival in nepal that worship dogs once a year for their loyality
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Y76Xd TIL Governor Al Smith and candidate for President in 1928 dropped out of school at 14 and never attended high school or college
Bb0k TIL “Blowing smoke up your ass” came from an first aid procedure where tobacco smoke was pushed into a drowning victim in order to warm the victim from the inside-out.
7rKn7 TIL that four bodies of members of the Romanov royal family of Imperial Russia, after execution in 1918, were buried at a Russian Orthodox site in Beijing, China, the 1920s. One of the two sites believed to hold the bodies, a cemetery, has since been made into a city park with a golf course.