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TIL aides from the Clinton administration removed all “W” keys from the keyboards in the White House before George W. Bush took over.

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Wk6k8 TIL about Liviu Librescu: a Romanian-born scientist, engineer, professor, teacher, and Holocaust survivor, who heroically held the door of his classroom closed during the Virginia Tech shootings sacrificing his life while the gunman continuously shot through the door, saving 22 of his 23 students.
8a0LV TIL of the Dryton and Apollonia archive, a family archive from 2nd century BC Egypt which contains info for 3 generations of a soldier's family, in the form of wills, divorce papers, financial accounts, personal letters etc
vm4R TIL a German man has been travelling around the world non-stop on a bike for over 50 years.
kOdKg TIL When inflight smoking was being initially banned there was an exemption for pilots out of safety concerns of them going through nicotine withdrawl
KPQa TIL: Russians purchased 500,000 baseball bats in 2014 but only one ball