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TIL that president Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest while giving a speech in 1912,but instead of going to the hospital, he insisted on finishing the speech first. He talked for over 80 minutes with a bullet lodged in his ribs, saying, It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. Absolute mad!

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4X6gN TIL of Wisdom—the world’s oldest albatross who reunited with the man who first tagged her in 1956. Having spent 40 years apart, Chandler Robbins picked her up by chance among a colony of more than 250,000 nests and discovered she’d also become the oldest albatross to ever give birth to a chick.
D17eJ TIL the granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants.
W6Q4 TIL that Led Zeppelin song “Black Dog” is named after a Black Labrador that was wandering around the recording studio, and does not have any real relation to the song itself.
N7Rk6 TIL that in 1859 a 2 hour telegraph conversation between Portland and Boston was able to be had without the use of any battery power. This was due to an aurora borealis generating enough electric current in the telegraph wires.
Egr6p TIL there is a registry for clowns (no not that one). Unique clown face designs are registered - on an egg.