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TIL President Andrew Jackson had to leave for a hotel when roughly 20,000 citizens celebrated his inauguration inside the White House. His aides ultimately had to lure the mob outside with washtubs filled with a potent cocktail of orange juice and whiskey.

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GY14E TIL about saturation diving. Divers working on deep-sea infrastructure such as oil pipelines live in a pressurised chamber for a month, taken between the chamber and their worksite by a pressurised diving bell. That way, they only need to be decompressed once, at the end of each 28-day job.
X0rJr TIL the historic Booth Theatre on Broadway (Currently running Tony Winner Kimberly Akimbo) is named after presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth's older brother, Edwin Booth.
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