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TIL Bill Clinton gave the 1994 State of the Union Address completely from memory. When he saw the wrong speech had been uploaded to the teleprompter, he quickly recovered and said “I’m not at all sure what speech is in the teleprompter tonight, but I hope we can talk about the State of the Union.”

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1LZ7 TIL unlike most Buddhist monks, the Dalai Lama is a meat eater. In the 1960s, he tried being vegetarian for a bit but had to give it up after he got sick with hepatitis
p4j4 TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.
yQWJw TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.
JYprk TIL that a photographer took photographs of Robert Kennedy’s assassination. The LAPD confiscated these photos for evidence. When he asked for them back, he was told they’d been destroyed. He sued and during the trial it was proven they tried to provide fake photos and his original photos were stolen
Y7alP TIL any calculation requiring more than 10^120 bits can not be calculated as the universe has not existed long enough to provide time enough to resolve it, even assuming almost instantaneous information transmission