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TIL Willie Nelson smoked a joint on the rooftop of the White House as Secret Service looked on.

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BgpXL TIL FDR's Fala Speech, inwhich Roosevelt defended his dog's honor from false accusations, was by Orson Welles. Welles had a history of sending in ideas for FDR and ad-libbed the original Fala joke for the President.
a8xNo TIL stars don't move during space travel as in movies. As Apollo astronauts looked out the window while speeding toward the moon, it looked like they were motionless because the stars didn't move.
R5Ro7 TIL the slowest speed of light ever achieved was 17 m/s ( 38 mp/h~ ) in 1998 by shooting a laser through extremely cold sodium atoms.
AO4o TIL that whenever al-Qaeda organised games of volleyball, Mohammed Atef and Osama Bin Laden were forced to be on separate teams since they were both tall, and skilled players.
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