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TIL that Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, owns a mountain in West Texas inside of which he is funding the construction of a 200 ft. clock designed to last 10,000 years.

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8aMQ8 TIL President Gerald Ford's golden retriever, Liberty, used to receive fan mail at the White House, and would respond with "paw-tographed" photos.
0PEA TIL That although we picture the Founding Fathers as old men, many were quite young. By July 4th, 1776, Aaron Burr was 20, Alexander Hamilton, 21; James Madison, 25; John Jay, 29; and Thomas Jefferson, 33.
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