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TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson, his father, and his grandfather all died of heart failure at the age of 64.

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9YPxB TIL The croissant is not really French. It was inspired by the Austrian kipfel that dates back to at least 1227.
X0O9D TIL, that the time loop mechanic in the game The Legends of Zelda: Majora's Mask was inspired by the experimental German film Run Lola Run (1998) that features a time loop of a girl named Lola going through several loops to save her boyfriend.
l7JOV TIL that every employee at the Hanford Engineer Works in Richland, WA donated one day's worth of their pay to purchase a B-17 bomber, as their contribution to the WW2 effort. The plane was christened 'Day's Pay' and flew over 60 missions in Germany
OGVpX TIL that assuming no special rules, it is geometrically possible to pass a portal completely through its partner
LeL0 TIL that during the Vietnam War, American troops would eat small amounts of C4 plastic explosive to get high.