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TIL United States citizens can request that the White House send a greeting for a wedding, birth, anniversaries, and other milestones… for free!

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j0RX TIL that Ypsilanti, Michigan is home to the ‘Brick Dick’, a water tower officially recognized as 'the most phallic building in the world.’
4bv5 TIL the GPS coordinates that lead to Walt’s buried money in BREAKING BAD actually, in real life lead to ABQ studios in Albuquerque NM where BREAKING BAD was filmed. They wanted to be sure the coordinates didn’t lead to somewhere people might go think there could be buried treasure.
R9R4 TIL geneticists believe that everybody on earth is at least 50th cousin to everybody else.
QrGX TIL American steel magnate Charles M Schwab died a pauper with over $300k in debt after blowing through a fortune that was worth $500-$800 million dollars today
p8JDb TIL About Karl Bushby who has been working for 20 years on walking around the whole globe on foot, in an over 36,000 mile long trek named ‘The Goliath Expedition’