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TIL: Franklin D. Roosevelt once accidentally walked in on a naked Winston Churchill. When Roosevelt apologized, Churchill replied: “The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.”

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GYNv1 TIL in 1993 David Letterman cut Bill Hicks final Late Show standup appearance for being too controversial, 4 months before he died. To make amends in 2009 David invited Bill's mother Mary as a guest & broadcast the full routine. David remarked "It says more about me as a guy than it says about Bill"
BoQy TIL that many of the largest charities in America are giant money making scams
OdM4 TIL of the pastry known as a “Persian”. Available only in the Canadian city of Thunder Bay it’s recipe is a tightly guarded secret to the point that people don’t actually know what kind of berry is used for the topping.
m1lbp TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race
oBZmY You obviously can’t see it when you gaze up at the night sky, but Earth has a whole lot of junk floating around in orbit. There are all kinds of reasons why debris ends up orbiting Earth and many of the objects are discarded pieces of other spacecraft or long-dead satellites which have no use to anyone. Sometimes these objects crash into each other and create even more, smaller pieces of space junk which can damage active satellites and even pose a danger to astronauts.