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TIL Sam Houston is the only person to be elected governor of two different states (TN and TX).

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XNBP TIL of Robert Clary who survived two Nazi concentration camps ( Ottmuth and Buchenwald ) and tattooed with the identification “A5714” on his left forearm. We know him as Corporal Louis LeBeau, the sparky French resistence fighter inside a Nazi prison camp on “Hogans Heros”. He is now 91 years old.
69Knl TIL: Nintendo and Sony collaborated in the early 90s on a CD-ROM console called Nintendo Playstation, which was never released, but repurposed into the Sony Playstation
Wk494 TIL the Great Sphinx of Giza is so old, that when the first archeologic expedition came to restore it, it had to actually excavate it first, as it was covered up to its ears in sand and dust. Oh and no - that expedition didn’t take place in the 19th century. It took place 3400 years ago.
VvkB TIL President Cleveland said to 5-year-old FDR, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you. It is that you may never be president of the United States.”
8adNL TIL more Lego minifigures appear each year than human children, and they now outnumber us, being highly collectible and non-decomposing.