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TIL Jimmy Carter is the only American president to have visited Hiroshima’s ground zero

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AoYo TIL David Cross said that working on the third installment of Alvin and the Chipmunks was “the most unpleasant experience of his professional life.”
gY4y TIL the volcanic system beneath Yellowstone holds enough lava to fill 11 Grand Canyons.
KOlaR TIL that moveable type printing was invented by a Chinese man named Bi Sheng 300 years before Guttenberg. He was largely forgotten due to his status as a peasant.
EE1X TIL that HBO passed up “The Walking Dead” because it was “too violent.” They also passed up “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men.”
Z85Na TIL that the first of the 112 people who died during the construction of the Hoover Adam was J.G. Tierney. The last person to die was Patrick Tierney, J.G. Tierney’s son