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TIL that there are currently 15 different types of power outlets in use around the world.

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VLVQ TIL 1948 winter Olympic Game’s athletes lacked the resources to compete post WWII, to the point where the Norwegian team had to borrow skis from the American team
4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.
jNOVM TIL of the Open-Fields Doctrine where any private land outside a property owner's curtilage (the dwelling and its immediate vicinity) can be subject to a warrant-less search under the 4th amendment.
QJ1V9 TIL that a community known as Druid Heights served as a focal point for three counterculture movements: the Beats in the 1950s, the hippies in the 1960s, and the feminists in the 1970s. Despite Druid Height's cultural significance, its future remains uncertain due to the deterioration of the site.
VM908 TIL Lillian Brown, the makeup artist of nine US presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he was about to go on national television to announce his resignation by telling him a funny story so that his makeup wouldn't be ruined.