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TIL When Lyndon Johnson died there were no former living Presidents. The last time that happened? When Washington died.

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0wAYy TIL that physicist Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a box containing a working model of his ‘death beam‘, warning employees never to open it because of the danger. They hid the box & when it was discovered years later & opened, found to contain old (harmless) electrial parts.
0w17A TIL tumbleweed is native to the Ural Mountains in Russia, and was brought to the US around 1877.
lrYG TIL that in 2014 Netflix spent $0 on marketing its DVD rental business but 6 million people still used it
E1anW TIL Oklahoma has the highest rate of childhood trauma in the US, measured using the ACE test. The aftereffects of this are seen in levels of incarceration, deaths by heart disease, divorce, and more. An ACE score of just 2/10 can increase future risk of social and physical struggles.
neJk7 TIL in 1931 a suspension bridge was built in Maine; the construction was so far under budget that there was enough money left over to build a second bridge elsewhere.