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TIL FDR signed the most executive orders out of any President in American history, with a total of 3721. The second closest is Woodrow Wilson who signed 1803 executive orders. Wilson was the President during WWI, while FDR was the President during the majority of WW2.

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lo4NK TIL on November 24, 2021, NASA launched its DART Mission to test propulsion technology designed to alter the course of an asteroid. The unmanned mission will intercept a moonlet of the asteroid Didymos in late September 2022, attempting to change the orbital period and thus change Didymos’ momentum
OGBmY TIL the United Kingdom does not test for PFASs in drinking water
pYGMZ TIL that in 2010 Tennessee firefighters watched a family's home burn to the ground because they hadn't paid a 75$ firefighting subscription fee
ADKQ4 TIL that the T. Rex in Jurassic Park was made of two giant animatronics that cost half the film's budget, not a result of CGI
Egr9P TIL the name of the fighting machine the "Tank" got its name because of subterfuge, as the British wanted to pass them off as water tanks bound for Russia.