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TIL the 2020 United States presidential election had a voter turnout of 66.6%.

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e0l65 TIL Towser the Mouser was a tortoiseshell cat that caught more than 28,000 mice at the Famous Grouse Whiskey distillery in Scotland. She’s in the Guinness Book of Records as best mouser, and they have a statue of her at the distillery.
AZjg TIL during prohibition Herbert Hoover would go to the Belgian embassy to have martinis, as it was not illegal to possess alcohol on foreign soil.
YpJkx TIL prior to losing the $3 million settlement to the lady who spilled coffee and got 3rd degree burns, Mcdonald's had over 700 reports of injuries from similar incidents.
N7avQ TIL NASA gave away hundreds of trees that have been to the moon. They never kept track of who they gave them to. Now they are trying to find them. One was at the White House.
GYMgJ TIL the last letter of AT&T stands for telegraph. (American Telephone and Telegraph)