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TIL in 1842, Charles Dickens visited the Whitehouse. He went to the front door and knocked, but no one answered, so he just let himself in.

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KYK7E TIL about Eipmaco Amancio, a 98-year-old from Dalaguete, Cebu. Decades ago, he planted a pine tree that saved 32 passengers in August 2010. A bus lost control but was stopped by his tree, preventing it from plunging into a 500-foot ravine that may have caused major disaster and casualties.
W68o TIL When the French Navy ceased using Morse code on January 31, 1997, the final message transmitted was “Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.”
0aGp TIL Victoria’s Secret model Karolína Kurková was born with a medical complication causing her to have no belly button. An artificial navel is photoshopped into each of her photographs.
rRNGM Frozen in time, Franz Josef Land is one of the last lingering remnants of the truly wild Arctic. The remote and nearly uninhabited 192-island archipelago is renowned for its biodiversity, which includes polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, belugas, and narwhals. The intensifying impact of climate change, however, nearly turned this serene environment deadly for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his crew.
dDaB7 TIL: Harold Cole was known as one of the "worst traitors" of WW2 by both sides. He was a conman who joined the French Air Force, then joined the Nazis when they took France, then betrayed the Nazis to feed intel the British, then joined the US Army, and then deserted. He was called, "utter shit".