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TIL that President Richard Nixon often traveled to Camp David, Maryland to catch broadcasts of Redskins' home games that were "blacked out" on TV in Washington DC. He also once reserved a phone line at his Florida White House to receive the play-by-play of a Cowboys-Redskins game in Dallas.

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OQoR TIL that every single ruler of Germany (AKA East Francia or the Holy Roman Empire), from Charlemagne to Kaiser Wilhelm II, is part of a contiguous family tree. Even if it’s occasionally through marriage, that’s over 1,000 years.
roRy TIL while 1500 people died on the Titanic, it isn’t the worst maritime disaster in history. Almost 10 thousand people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945
Lk1w0 TIL: The world record for most marriages is 29, held by Glynn Wolfe. When Wolfe died, none of the women he married and only one of his children attended the funeral.
P1Q9n TIL Over the past decade there has been at least a four- to five-fold increase in the number of oral cancers in the US as a result of HVP infections. The odds of HPV-positive throat cancer increased five-fold in those patients with six or more oral sexual partners.
b61x9 TIL that after Alexander the Great reinstalled Ada of Caria as queen of Caria after being dethroned, she adopted him as her son and would treat him as such, often sending him cakes and delicacies among other related things for him on his campaign, but Alexander would ultimately decline