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

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7rpnP TIL Napoleon struggled to learn English, and some of his attempts were kept: "Since sixt week j learn the Englich and j do not any progress."
yLlw TIL in 2002, Sega’s president, Isao Okawa, donated all of his company stock, worth $695.7 million dollars, to save the company from going bankrupt after they pulled the plug on its flagship game console, Dreamcast. He died of heart failure shortly after.
awMG9 TIL that Bill Gates released a swarm of (not infectious) mosquitoes at a TED Talk to demonstrate that even if malaria doesn’t infect people directly, they should still care
v9Ax TIL Pierre Boulle, author of “Planet of the Apes” and “The Bridge over the River Kwai”, won an Oscar for the later movie adaptation. Not speaking English and not having actually written the screenplay, Boulle gave the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word “Merci”.
Mod0 TIL Tupac’s last words, when a cop asked who shot him: “Fuck You.”