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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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N7DkP TIL [in 1926] Overcome with grief after the death of his wife, famed sharp shooter Annie Oakley, Francis Butler refused to eat and died of starvation 18 days later at the age of 78.
d8LkQ TIL: The first German service man killed in WW2 was killed by a Japanese man in China.
oB8AW TIL that by petting your bird on its back, tail or under the wings, you might induce such hormonal and behavioral responses that the bird sees you as a reproductive partner, and that can lead it to be sexually frustrated, resulting in harmful behavior towards you and the bird itself.
epnD4 TIL that the first flight attendant in the world, Heinrich Kubis, started working as a waiter on a zeppelin in 1912, was on board during the Hindenburg disaster, and survived.
p4vb TIL the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals is the only time no winner was declared due to an outbreak of influenza which hospitalized most of the Montreal Canadiens and their general manager.