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TIL Steve-O was a clown and graduated from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College

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KYmga TIL that the last U.S. President who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican was Millard Fillmore, the final Whig Party President, who served in the executive office from July 1850 to March 1853.
dp5Z TIL Transparent glass solar panels are already a reality
6E1x8 TIL that the last Emperor of Rome Romulus Augustus, has a significant name because, the founder of Rome was called Romulus and the First Emperor of Rome was named Augustus. The circular nature of his death brings a lovely end to the story of Rome.
dyKj TIL that the highest flying bird is the Ruppell’s vulture; one was injested by a jet at 37,000 feet.
pY7JZ TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s