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TIL Ronald Reagan holds the record for both the coldest Inauguration (7 degrees) and the record for the warmest Inaguration (55 degrees)

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BrQmy TIL The ball dropped in Time Square on New Year's Eve represents a "time ball" used hundreds of years ago. Ship captains all across the harbor could start their clocks when they saw the ball land.
kOd97 TIL When billionaire Steve Fossett went missing during a solo plane flight where it was ultimately discovered he perished, the CAP, National Guard, and thousand of AMT volunteers found many other plane crash sites lost to time. Most (at the time) were not investigated further.
66o7 TIL Imgur is creating tools that will let users track their images across the Web and see where they’re reposted
br7Q TIL Kenny the “Down Syndrome” tiger was the result of deliberate inbreeding between rare brother and sister white tigers and most of his siblings were either stillborn or died very young.
095M TIL due to the decline in fertility that tends to accompany wealth, human population is expected to stabilize at near 9 billion by 2050.