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TIL that Jimmy Carter (born 1924) was the first president of the United States of American to have been born in a hospital.

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6LKW TIL in 1963 a series of tests proved that the Hercules C-130 transport aircraft could land on and take off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal.
0kv1 TIL that scientists actually REVERSED ageing in mice
wLvpE TIL that tech support operators will occasionally use error codes such as PEBKAC (Problem exists between keyboard and chair) or ID-Ten-T (ID10T) to discreetly imply that an error isn't with the device, but with the user.
0d4Qv TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name
78Qg7 TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657.