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TIL that there were 32 solar panels on the White House, and that Ronald Reagan had them removed.

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wob7W TIL that Mainland Chinese men would roll up their shirts during summer and expose their bellies to the world, resulting in what's called a "Beijing Bikini"
W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Eve7 TIL The Ka-50 helicopter has a ejection seat. Before the rocket in the seat deploys, the rotor blades are blown away by explosives in the rotor disc.
9k1X TIL that Bill Murray thinks Kung Fu Hustle is “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”.
W7DRA TIL that the CIA once tried to make a cat into a spy by surgically implanting listening devices inside it.