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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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PWLe TIL that the average net worth for an African American family is $4,955…less than the average family has in India.
7rWKX TIL Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, was so fascinated by the imagined slang language he created, he compiled a dictionary of all its words. Thought to be lost, the dictionary of Burgesses' slang was rediscovered in 2017
ne6jP TIL that The International Space station is closer to the earth than San Francisco is to L.A.
nKj9 TIL that there is a deity in Egyptian Mythology who represents the concept of Endlessness, Eternity, and Infinity. His name is “Huh”.