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TIL Jon Stewart was a talented college soccer player who scored the only goal in a key game leading to the NCAA tournament.

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JdL4 TIL Martin Van Buren was the only US President to speak english… as a second language
OoL14 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside the US on official business. He went to Panama to inspect the ongoing construction of the Panama Canal, arriving there on November 14, 1906.
oKPK TIL regular condoms are too big for men of ALL nationalities.. not just Indian men as the 2006 BBC News article says
JYjaV TIL that on October 24, 1975 an estimated 90 percent of women of Iceland participated a “women’s day off” to demonstrate the value of their work, both paid and unpaid. Fathers had little choice but to bring their children to work or stay home themselves, leading them to call it “the long Friday.”
1la4 TIL that the concept of a zombie apocalypse is four thousand years old. In the heroic epic about him, Gilgamesh, the mythical king of Uruk spurned the advances of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility. She became enraged and threatened to “raise the dead who will outnumber the living and devour them.”