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TIL President Dwight D Eisenhower had four American heroes and one was General Robert E Lee. He hung four portraits in his office and one was Lee's; the others were President Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, President Washington and Lee.

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N7amE TIL of the band Grouplove who was the first band in the United States to be certified climate friendly
JYOEm TIL US aircraft carriers are so large they each have their own designated zip code
v1bnD TIL the common expression "OK" didn't exist prior to 1839 and was coined as a joke. In the writing of the time it was popular to make fun abbreviations similar to our OMG or even TIL, and "OK" was one of them.
b9B70 TIL that there have been two successful penile transplants in South Africa, as well as an UNSUCCESSFUL one in China that had to be reversed because the wife of the forty-four-year-old recipient panicked at the idea that he now had someone else's penis
p64G TIL one person has made 47,000 edits to Wikipedia to correct a single grammatical error: the misuse of the phrase “comprised of”