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TIL the Emperor of Japan is personally bankrolling his nation's search for Ununennium, chemical element 119.

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Y7ayZ TIL Former U.S. President Martin Van Buren argued with Congress over whether he could keep two pet tigers in the White House.
b9YAQ TIL the iconic "Make Love, Not War " anti-Vietnam war poster was created by Wilfred Weisser a globe-trotting hippie from Germany, living in San Francisco in the mid-'60s. He then disappeared and has never collected a single cent in copyright royalties.
J051 TIL that Goldeney 007 for N64 only had 9 developers on the team, and 8 of them had never worked on video games before.
BrjxD TIL in 35th fastest supercomputer in the world in 2010 was The Condor Cluster built by the US Air Force from over 1700 PS3s linked together running Linux
05gv TIL that a long-term 30-years study found that post-operation Transgender persons are 20x more likely to commit suicide when compared to the general population