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TIL the President has a blood bank, with his own blood type, in the trunk of his car

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jNMdE TIL of Albert Stevens, a house painter that was unwittingly injected with plutonium and survived the highest known dose of radiation in any human
5VJyp TIL that 21 out of the last 31 U.S. elections, the tallest person was elected President.
GAkXE TIL We're All Bananas! Well, Mostly, 60% of our genes are identical with bananas.
4XyPJ TIL that some birds spread fire by carrying lit sticks in order to find food
E1LVd TIL that electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on September 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.