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TIL Harry Truman held both the highest (at 91%) and tied for the lowest (at 22%) approval ratings since Gallup started compiling them in 1937

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D1n5Y TIL Einstein married his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. (Not only were their mothers sisters, but their fathers were cousins too, making the married couple second cousins as well.) The relationship began while Einstein was still married to his first wife, physicist Mileva Marić.
newDr TIL that Animal House was filmed at the University of Oregon on the condition that it not be identified in the movie
WkELN TIL some emergency vehicles can emit a low sound to vibrate vehicles and can help alert the hearing impaired to their presence.
BrX5x TIL That the world's oldest continuously running business is a hot springs hotel in Japan that's run since 705 A.D.
gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.