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TIL the White House has an official team of three calligraphers that make around $100,000 a year.

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nNwG TIL Israel’s nuclear policy is NOT to “nuke the entire world” in the event it’s attacked. Israel’s policy is to not even comment on whether or not they have nuclear weapons, let alone what they would do with them if attacked.
kXLB TIL that a town in Italy banned people from keeping goldfish in bowls, because the structure of the bowl “distorts the goldfish’s view of reality”
167Z8 TIL Reno, Nevada is named after the Father of the man who invented the first working escalator
vOlj TIL: Andrew Jackson’s parrot was ejected from his funeral for swearing
MeMmm TIL that the Star Spangled Banner borrowed its tune from “To Anacreon in Heaven”, a British drinking song hailing the praises of an Ancient Greek poet famous for loving wine and writing erotic poetry.