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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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kJYR1 TIL Winston Churchill opposed the American use of napalm during the Korean war but still allowed Americans to publish claims of British support for American napalm attacks.
wDrJ TIL Jupiter is a “cosmic vacuum cleaner.” Its gravitational influence causes comets and asteroids to collide with it. The rate of impacts on Jupiter is about 2000-8000X higher than the rate on Earth. Without Jupiter, the probability of asteroid impacts with the inner planets would be much greater.
JYK9l TIL that there's a town in Brazil named Cândido Godói that is called Land of Twins because the rate of twin births is nearly a thousand percent above the global average
Q1yp TIL Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran
16Kb7 TIL one of the possible inspirations for the Sheriff of Nottingham from "Robin Hood" fame is a man called Philip Marc, who was so hated that a clause in the Magna Carta was specifically written remove him from his position.