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TIL the First Family pays for most of its living expenses in the White House, including groceries, toiletries and some staff.

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MR0B TIL the US ZIP Code 12345 belongs to the main corporate campus of General Electric. GE receives thousands of Santa letters each year from kids believing it would make most sense for Santa’s workshop to have 12345 as his ZIP code.
6EVoW TIL the Royal Navy admitted their ships would be empty if they discharged "all the men with homosexual experience". Investigations in the 1960s reveal hundreds of British naval officers were sexually involved with other men, so for national security, discreet homosexuality was mostly ignored.
5Ywlr TIL That when the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010 the locker room was initially completely silent. That is, until someone yelled, ‘It’s the fuckin’ Catalina Wine Mixer!’ from the movie Step Brothers.
4XDv5 TIL when Elton John changed his name from Reginald Dwight, he also gave himself a middle name. His full name is Elton Hercules John
Oo77 TIL that a 10th-century Arab explorer in Russia witnessed a Viking funeral rite in which a slave girl had sex with each of the tribe’s warriors before they ritualistically sacrificed her to serve their fallen chieftain in the afterlife.