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TIL the White House’s Press Briefing Room was originally a swimming pool.

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dDKj8 TIL a mannequin in a California funhouse was revealed to be a real body when the arm fell off in 1976. It was the corpse of a man named Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw shot dead by sheriffs 65 years earlier.
690RY TIL that in the early 1900s in the U.S., human zoos were a thing, where people from indigenous tribes and isolated cultures were put on display for entertainment.
6m9w TIL that the Russian fighter jet, Su-34, comes equipped with a toilet and a kitchen.
1akNd Today i learned that Toto guitarist and vocalist Steve Lukather has played on over 800 albums and with many artists including Michael Jackson, Olivia Newton John, Boz Scagzz, Miles Davis many more.
Wk6WY TIL a small town in east Texas with only 24,000 people saw 25% of all patent law suits in America. Patent trolls used to try all their cases there before the supreme court disallowed it.