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TIL that when Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s he used to rake the leaves out of his family pool, not knowing that his secret service men were replenishing the leaves.

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M7XnV TIL that there has been an alternative to the standard http internet, called Project Xanadu, in continuous development for the past 62 years, and was called "the longest running vaporware" even back in 1995.
KOvOw TIL Zodiac symbols also correspond to alchemy processes and were part of a larger system of symbols that were used as notation in proto-chemistry formulas in the early modern period
RwX7 TIL a list was compiled of actors with the most on-screen kills, which included (understandably) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Clint Eastwood, but also at #7, beating out Jet Li, is Nicolas Cage with 204 on-screen kills.
0woNL TIL that new Mail Pouch barns were painted as recently as 1992
m1jdy TIL After the integration of Nunavik into Canada, the Inuktitut language has added thousands of words to itself in the last few decades, at the same time that many words became obsolete and lost. New words include “Funnialuk” — as in “very funny.”