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TIL The Silent Generation (people born 1925-1945) did not produce any United States Presidents

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wLAAW TIL the great argus is a species of pheasant from SE Asia. The male performs a very ostentatious mating ritual, sometimes humorously called "pick-a-card." Linnaeus named the bird owing to its intricate eye-like patterns on its wings, in reference to Argus, a 100-eyed character from Greek mythology.
neJnW TIL- The 8th U.S President Martin Van Buren never once mentioned his wife in his 800 page autobiography.
eDbk TIL that a chimpanzee Washoe, the first animal to learn American Sign Language, was able to combine the hundreds of signs that she learned into novel combinations that she hadn’t been taught and created herself. She also taught her adopted son some American Sign Language.
a8O0M TIL 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado cost $45 million to construct in 2006, never turned a profit in its 17 years of operation and is set to be torn down in early to mid 2024.
grbL TIL that there is a theory called “The Phantom Time Hypothesis” in which it is stated that the years from 614 to 911 AD didn’t actually exist and where faked by Roman Emperor Otto III so he could reign in the year 1000 AD.