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TIL A man once faked his own death to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract.

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NLxJ TIL that since Ronald Reagan, each outgoing United States president has left a private message on the Oval Office desk for the incoming president on Inauguration Day.
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1XkV TIL that Kanye North and Kanye South (but not Kanye West) are parliamentary constituencies in Botswana
gQ08 TIL that WWII fighter pilot James Howard won the medal of honor for single handedly taking on 30+ German fighter planes all by himself to protect a group of American bomber planes.
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