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TIL the president and vice-president can't be from the same state.

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KYX5G TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843
LkaM9 Today I learned that guests at a wedding in Serbia accidentally shot down a small plane with celebratory gunfire.
0w5K5 TIL There are twice as many bathrooms as necessary as the Pentagon because planners had to design the it for black and white employees, including “white” and “colored” cafeterias. However, Pres. Roosevelt made Jim Crow laws illegal on Federal property prior to its opening and was never enforced.
VMrRG TIL Rivers Cuomo of Weezer wrote a program to select songs for the band's cover album, the Teal Album. The program gathered data from Spotify's API to find the most popular songs released before 1994 not tagged "classic rock" or "alternative rock".
MxJV TIL there’s an abandoned cruise ship floating adrift in the north Atlantic.