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TIL that Grover Cleveland is the only US President to be elected on non-consecutive terms.

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VMm6m TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout was created in the early 1870s for typewriters. It was purposely designed to slow the user down so the typewriter keys wouldn't jam. 150 years later, we are still using the same keyboard design even though we don't have to worry about keys jamming.
4r7g TIL That Ikea has developed a new “flat-pack” refugee shelter. It has solar panels designed to power a lamp and a phone charger, and lasts three years compared to the current shelter which lasts six months.
6EnY7 TIL about the 'Harlem Hellfighters' WW1's African-American regiment who were the first Allied unit to reach the banks of the river Rhine in November 1918
pYWXp TIL the medical research surrounding having people’s gender not matching their genetic markers has been occurring for a very long time. Genetically born males who cannot process androgens such as testosterone and grow up female because medically it was the best outcome. Many didn’t even know.
1aevX TIL an Australian news anchor wore the same suit every day for a year and no one noticed