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TIL the first unelected president of the united states was born with the surname King

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GY6m1 TIL "Seven Days to the River Rhine", a USSR battle plan forged at 1979, which planned to carpet bombing western Europe with nukes so the forces Warsaw Pact could push to Rhine river within a week.
8a7W8 TIL of a huge sunken land-mass in the Pacific Ocean, dubbed Zealandia. It was spied from space, and scientists favor it being formally recognized as the 8th continent, of which New Zealand is it's only visible portion.
LkbZd TIL there once lived a species of pterodactyl dubbed Cryodrakon boreas, which translates to "frozen dragon of the north wind," that had a wingspan of 33 feet, about as wide as an F-16 fighter jet.
6KAZ TIL: Stubbs the cat has been the official mayor of Talkeetna Alaska for 20 years.
nWd5b TIL that fungi live in the ocean too