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VBM7Q TIL The White House built a vinyl record collection during the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter of more than 2,000 donated albums. A time capsule of 1970s trends, it ranges from Pat Boone, Barry Manilow and John Denver to the Beatles, Isaac Hayes, The Clash and Elvis Costello.
9QxG TIL there is a man in India who claims he has gone the past 70 years without food or water. Once Indian military doctors kept him on 24 hour. Watch for 2 weeks and were unable to disprove his claims.
xVnY0 TIL that a duck breed called the Cayuga lays eggs that have a black to gray shell
wLDDW TIL Princess Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a glass piano as a child. This delusion was not unheard of and was recorded in Europe and mainly suffered by royals, nobels and scholars (between C15 and C17). It was manifest as a fear that parts of their anatomy were made of glass.
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