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TIL No US president was an only child

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kJ0o5 TIL in 1925, wealthy SF businessman Herbert Fleishhacker built what was then the largest swimming pool in the US. Open to the public, it measured 150 x 1000 feet, held 6.5 million gallons, and could hold 10k people. The pool was filled with filtered seawater and heated to 72°. It closed in 1971.
WpAL TIL There Is A Way To Dispose Of And Deactivate Nuclear/Radioactive Waste While Creating Electricity.
0KOv TIL International Women’s Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union and used to be called International Working Women’s Day until 1975
LkgQ9 TIL in 2017 the Pentagon released videos and information of a UFO encounter through a FOIA request.
oRJPW TIL that people who attempted suicide are seven times more likely to die from heart disease before age 40