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TIL Tom Hanks has been gifting the White House press corps with new coffee machines since 2004 after visiting and finding an old decrepit Mr. Coffee machine serving really bad coffee. Latest was a $1700 espresso machine in 2017.

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e0vxn TIL that a French surgeon first started wearing blue scrubs during surgery in 1914 because he discovered it reduced eye strain for doctors working endless hours during WWI. "Ciel Blue" became standard once surgery was videotaped in the 1970s and white scrubs conflicted with the white lights.
b60oE TIL in 2020, 68-year-old actress Ana Obregón lost her only son to cancer at 27. After his death, she used her son's frozen sperm to grant her wish of having a granddaughter (via surrogacy) who she's currently raising as her daughter.
5Y1OP TIL there was a plan to build a 3,000 slot machine casino almost 3 miles from the Gettysburg Battlefield, which would create 3,000 jobs and a year-round tourism industry. It was rejected twice (2006 and 2011) under opposition from Civil War enthusiasts including Ken Burns and composer John Williams.
QJJKd TIL that The Red Baron's brother Lothar, who was in Jasta 11 under his brother's command, survived the war, only to die in 1922 when his plane's engine failed.
nexoo TIL Raffi the beloved children’s singer has a charity called The Centre for Child Honouring which advocates for a child’s right to live free of commercial (advertising) exploitation. Raffi has consistently turned down all endorsement offers including a lucrative one for a Baby Beluga motion picture