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TIL President Kennedy had multiple conversations with President Eisenhower asking for advice during the Cuban missile crisis, and there are recordings of those phone calls.

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rNBlM TIL of Arthur Heineman who built the first motel, the Motel Inn. Despite having no proper architectural training, Heineman also built multiple other buildings, that have made it onto the National Register of Historical Places.
W7V94 TIL we are closer to ‘idicracy’ thank we think, meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind
vPx0B TIL female depression treatment lead to the invention of the vibrator
7rOX TIL there are 1367 chess grandmasters. Of these, only 27 are female.
Y7DEx TIL that the WR for deepest scuba dive (332.35 m set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014) is highly controversial and likely faked, as there are far too many discrepancies in the provided proof for the dive, some of which could easily have killed him had he actually dived to that depth