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TIL Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) was the first US President to be born in a hospital.

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GrM7 Til that sting will earn $2000 a day because his song was used on puff daddy’s “ill be missing you” without his permission.
awppM TIL that in Australia there exists “kangatarianism”, which is essentially a vegetarian diet that excludes all meat except kangaroo meat on environmental and ethical grounds.
V5bk TIL Full-screen games monopolize the graphics card, so alt-tabbing requires the game to give that control up and the OS to take it back and start rendering the desktop again.
VW04 TIL a NYC hotel kicked out Duck Dynasty star Jase Robertson after confusing him for a homeless man.
4X1gN TIL some people don't like vegetables like cabbage and broccoli due to genes that make their taste buds super sensitive to having more of a protein that interlocks with phenylthiocarbamide, causing the sensation of bitterness. A very similar compound is found in brassicas, causing a similar reaction