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TIL the only U.S. President depicted with a tobacco product in his official White House oil painting is Gerald R. Ford, who is holding his pipe.

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WkYPN TIL “Chad” is among the few Anglo-Saxon names to remain in common use.
VKZQ TIL “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis was the first song since 1994 to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
kJ7YW TIL that the highest diversity of bee species is found in deserts and other temperate dry regions as opposed to tropical forests. So there are a lot more bee species in the US southwest than in the Amazon, and a lot more in Turkey than in the Congo.
mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.
EYVo TIL that Japan is using more and more blue street lights to reduce suicide and crime