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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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lR6N TIL that The Asylum, distributor of Sharknado and mockbusters such as Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, and Sunday School Musical, has never lost money on a film.
BZly TIL when Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Another scientist, Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.
groob TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history
8a51L TIL that the name "Idaho" is not a Native American word, but a completely made-up word that George M. Willing coined after meeting a little girl named "Ida."
NX6VP TIL Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dali were each named after an older sibling who had died in infancy less than two years before they were born, a naming practice known as "necronym".