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Today I learned that, for a brief period from 1973 to 1974, Richard Nixon was the only living president

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yVjDe TIL that the original Grimace had four arms and was a villain.
oR5xW TIL that prehistoric humans in the Indo-Burma region engaged in turtle and tortoise farming, and are thought to have spread the elongated tortoise beyond its natural range due to using the species as a food source.
Y1rW TIL, it is expected that oil will reach its economic limit within the average lifespan of the millennial generation.
yQD8p TIL Making porn is technically illegal in Australia. Except in the ACT (the Australian equivalent of Washington, D.C.)
4krbb TIL in 1845 a suspension bridge crowded with children collapsed under their weight killing 79. They had gathered to watch a clown in a barrel being pulled by geese down the river.