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TIL YouTuber Bart Baker ran for president in 2016 and announced his campaign by putting up a billboard in Times Square of himself riding a hoverboard with a suit top and boxer shorts with the American flag on them.

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rReLe TIL "PNG" is always pronounced "ping" in English, not "pinj" or "pee en gee" or any other multi-syllabic disaster.
9Yd57 TIL Thomas Jefferson had a Shetland sheep that he kept on the White House lawn described as "this abominable animal". It would attack people who took shortcuts across the lawn, injuring a few people and killing a small boy.
7r56b TIL that Michigan ranks number one as the state with the highest percentage of water (41.5% of its total area). Sources of water are so abundant there that no one in the state is ever more than 6 miles from a body of water.
Q766 TIL that while Kevin Bacon was at first no fan of the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game created over the course of his career, he eventually grew to appreciate it, founding SixDegrees.org, a social networking site dedicating to linking people and charities together.
e0eE TIL that 60 years ago, the idea of a politician soliciting campaign contributions was so frowned-upon that Nixon was very nearly kicked off the Republican ticket for doing it