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TIL the President of the United States serves as the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America during his term in office.

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kWe7 TIL a former governor of Alaska proposed building a pipeline from Alaska to California, to pump fresh water, not oil.
W74K9 TIL the first head of government to be assassinated with a firearm was James Stewart, Regent of Scotland, in 1570
W7Jpd TIL Domingo Ghirardelli was so upset that a Catholic priest did not do last rites for his daughter that he smuggled his family's bodies out of the local Catholic cemetery and moved them to a mausoleum decorated with a prominent Masonic emblem above the door.
6QXW TIL that Jack Daniels deals with copyright infringement by politely requesting changes rather than making stringent demands like copyright lawyers usually do.
b9WM9 TIL Gayla Peevey, the little girl who sang, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," is still alive, and was only ten years old when she recorded the song in 1953.