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TIL James Buchanan was likely the first gay POTUS.

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697vJ TIL that when Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, he was working as a doctor in the NHS. On the day he broke the record, he had already worked a morning shift at St Mary's hospital in London, and then caught the train to Oxford where he ran the race.
9R66 TIL of Dado Banatao. He was born in rural Philippines. He walked barefooted everyday to elementary school and used bamboo sticks to learn math. He ended up in Stanford with a Masters in EECS, developed the first computer chips, and co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics.
4aN6 TIL The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad
XE4QP TIL about Frisland, a "phantom" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, was charted on nearly every map of the North Atlantic from the 1560s to the 1660s
0lL TIL the cult sci-fi movie Primer was made on a budget of only $7000 and grossed close to half a million dollars giving it a profit of 60,00%