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TIL that President Obamas Secret Service codename is Renegade

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yV04M TIL that since 1938, a Finnish government agency has given parents a "maternity package" containing many useful items for babies for every newborn child
PYwoO TIL of Thomas Jones, a 14-year-old who broke into Buckingham Palace in 1838 and was caught with Queen Victoria's underwear stuffed down his trousers. After breaking in twice more, Jones was sentenced to hard labour, and after incarceration on a prison ship would later become the town crier of Perth.
oR1dK TIL sales of Sunny Delight declined in the UK after one of its commercials showing a snowman turning orange was released at about the same time as news reports of a four-year-old girl's skin color turning orange due to drinking 1.5 liters a day of the product, which contained beta-carotene.
QJ0ea TIL Steller's Sea Cow was wiped out by hunting in less than 30 years since discovered...
69Yew TIL in 2001, a young boy in Florida had his arm bitten off by a shark. His quick-thinking uncle not only rescued him but also wrestled the 200-pound shark to shore. The boy's arm was retrieved from inside the shark, and after an 11-hour surgery, it was successfully reattached.