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TIL about "Zoombombing"

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awKpo TIL that Camp David is named after the grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower
XElg6 TIL That, in 1979, two East German Families wanted to escape East Germany, and to do that, they made a hot air balloon, got on a hill, and with that balloon they got 2,500 meters into the air, and managed to cross the Iron Curtain into West Germany with a Hot Air Balloon, flying past border defenses
p8A08 TIL that in "Take Me Home, Country Roads," the ode to West Virginia , the Shenandoah River is one of two place names mentioned. But the Shenandoah spends only its sixteen final miles in West Virginia. The rest--about 230 miles of main stem and combined North and South Forks--is in Virginia.
NXE86 TIL over 20 million people were killed in Chinese Islamic insurgency in 1860s and 1870s under Qing dysnasty, one province lost 14 million and the neighboring province 6 million
8aOMb TIL: On July 28th, 1932, the US government deployed tanks onto the streets of Washington DC to clear the streets of veterans who were protesting to redeem their certificates early.