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TIL that Bill Clinton had a seven person hot tub put in The White House.

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e0WnL TIL A fitness tracking app gave away the locations of secret US army bases. The company released 3 trillion GPS data points to help people find popular running routes in major cities, however it was detailed enough to give away sensitive information of users on active military service.
OoQYL TIL A huge oak tree transfers almost 40,000 gallons (151,000 litres) of water into the atmosphere in one year.
OGGeg TIL human DNA contains roughly 750Mb of information.
6m5Q TIL the Portuguese Man-of-War is not a single creature, but a colony of four smaller organisms that attach to each other and cannot survive independently
N7oWQ TIL a 2012 study swabbed 60 belly buttons and identified a total of 2,368 species of bacteria 1,458 of which were 'New to Science'