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TIL President Roosevelt visited Hawaii in July of 1934, making him the first acting president to set foot on the island.

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JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe
8adb TIL Over 80% of Nevada land is owned by the US Federal Government
l8kN TIL that a jazz bassist named Ron Carter has appeared in over 2,500 albums, making him one of the most recorded bassists in jazz history.
dDejQ TIL that barnacles are actually crustaceans, closely related to crabs and lobsters- their larvae look very similar to crabs, and upon finding a suitable site to adhere to, they will activate their cement glands, grow a hard calcium shell, and metamorphosize into adults.
4Do6 TIL that during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet forces held a single apartment building for 60 days against daily German assaults. The building was transformed into a fortress, with 4 layers of barbed wire, minefields, and a machinegun in nearly every window.