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TIL the President's desk in the Oval Office of the White House was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880, & was carved from the HMS Resolute, a 19th century British Royal Navy ship that an American whaler recovered from the Arctic

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M6MB TIL of the word “callipygian,” which means “having a well-shaped buttocks.”
yQnWw TIL a grand total of 2121 nuclear tests were conducted by various countries around the world from 1945 with an estimated 515 MEGATONS of yield, but no nuclear winter ever recorded
VO6Z TIL Director Oliver Stone enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war and requested combat duty. He participated in more than 25 helicopter combat assaults. He was awarded the Bronze Star with “V” device for his heroism in ground combat, as well as a Purple Heart with an Oak Leaf cluster.
kJ0b1 TIL the annual probability of an obese person attaining normal weight was 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1290 for men and 1 in 677 for women with morbid obesity.
1aLdX TIL There was a Beluga whale that learned how to mimic human speech and additionally told a diver to get out if his tank