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TIL The "Tower of the Winds" (in Athens) is considered to be the first ever meteorological station. It features eight sundials, a water clock and a wind vane

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1aX4X TIL LBJ as VP "invited" a Pakistani camel cart driver named Bashir Sarban to the White House. Though he said it as a formality, the governments of both the US and Pakistan made it happen. LBJ and Bashir had a meal at the Johnson ranch outside Dallas, and Bashir toured the country over a week.
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ne59b TIL Henry Kissinger's son is the head of Conan O'Brien's production company CONACO
rpKy TIL there was a magician by the name Jasper Maskelyne who used “magic” to help against the nazis in WWII. He would hide tools and maps in everyday objects and fool the nazis by using illusions.
9Z0X TIL George Washington vowed never to set foot on English soil — so when London’s National Gallery erected a statue of the president in 1921, the state of Virginia sent a ton of earth for him to stand on.