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TIL the original US Constitution set no term limits on the President. George Washington voluntarily retired from office after two terms, establishing an informal two-term limit. This custom lasted for nearly 150 years until FDR broke the tradition.

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vPv6D TIL about Lothar Kreyssig, a German judge who attempted to stop the Nazi t4 “euthanasia” program in 1940; even filing charges against a senior Nazi official for murder.
xN1b TIL the city with the lowest marriage rate in the United States is Washington D.C.
eor4 TIL that, during WWII, Dutch restistance leader Gerrit Kastein was captured, placed in an interrogation room and tied to a chair. Because he feared he would give up names under torture, while left alone he jumped through a closed second floor window while still attached to the chair.
XoXk TIL that if the earth suddenly stopped spinning, everything would suddenly be projected sideways as though we were in a car accident at over 1,000 km/hr.
gMB9 TIL on August 25, 1914, in retaliation for Belgium’s guerrilla tactics in defending their country, German troops burned Leuven’s University Library, destroying hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable medieval-period books, manuscripts, and treasures.