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TIL With only one exception every single President that's been shot has been has been a Republican.

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VBNBD TIL the Nine-banded armadillos, the only armadillo species found in America always gives birth to identical quadruplets.
DNjD TIL that in 1951, MGM owed the dog who played Lassie $40,000 in back pay. Not planning any more Lassie movies, MGM instead gave the rights to the Lassie trademark to the dog’s trainer, who spun it off into a TV show that ran for 19 seasons.
DQDvv TIL about the Graham's number. It is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, the smallest measurable space. The last 13 digits are ...7262464195387
ONe7 TIL the 1978 “UFO abduction” of Frederick Valentich has been solved: out searching for UFOs, the inexperienced pilot saw “4 points of light of an elongated UFO”. Recent astronomical simulations show a perfect diamond formed by Mercury, Venus, Mars and nearby star Antares.
Wr18 TIL detoxication and purging with any juice fast kick or detox box is a marketed misleading concept which got no scientific medical evidence.