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TIL that President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House. Then, Reagan took them down. Now, one is in China.

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QNWG6 TIL: As many as a quarter million Chinese citizens were executed by Japanese forces as retaliation for helping the pilots that crashed landed during the Doolittle raid.
bKXa TIL some animals use copper, instead of iron as a way to transport oxygen through their blood
B61e TIL that Google maps won’t give driving directions in South Korea, due to a law that restricts the use of maps.
J1OWm TIL in 1494, Christopher Columbus recorded an encounter with the now-extinct Caribbean Monk Seal near the island of Hispaniola, his men killed 8 seals as they slept on the beach
4XyaN TIL During WWII, large corporations like Bosch and Daimler Benz, unequivocally supported goals of Hitler’s regime and its war effort in exchange for advantageous contracts, subsidies and in exchange was allowed to use slave labor from occupied countries, which accounted for one quarter of workforce