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TIL that Bill Clinton actually didn’t inhale- Christopher Hitchens, who studied with Clinton at Oxford, stated that he was allergic to the smoke but loved eating pot brownies.

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W7pN4 TIL that Alexander Hamilton's great-great-grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, was a veteran of both World Wars, and was awarded the Portuguese Order of Christ, the Order of the British Empire, the Legion of Merit, and the Medal of Honor during WW2, and was promoted a Major General after WW2.
7rX0p TIL that the Great Wall of China, stretching over 20,000 km (13,000 miles) and built over centuries, never effectively prevented invaders from entering China.
wLYv8 TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted the modern cell phone in 1926: “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but...we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face... a man will be able to carry one in his pocket”
plyA TIL: “shitstorm” has been adopted into the German language as, a perfectly polite noun meaning, an internet born controversy
JYXYm TIL that when holocaust survivors were given candy/food by the allied troops upon liberation, many died on the spot (or soon after) due to re-feeding syndrome