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TIL The White House had solar heating panels back in 1979
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TIL that in WWII there was a Nazi sailor who flushed his toilet incorrectly, causing his submarine to flood with seawater. The sub was forced to surface in view of the British who then attacked, resulting in the vessel's destruction, 4 Nazi deaths, and 46 Nazis captured
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TIL that before the invention of postage stamps, the recipient of a letter or package had to pay the postage when they received it, effectively buying their incoming mail from the postal service
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TIL that the outro music for the TV series Bottom was actually a hit from 1961 for The Mar Keys called Last Night.
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TIL that we could’ve straightened the leaning tower of Pisa... but we didn’t!
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TIL that in 2015 a Hezbollah cell was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate in London