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TIL that five U.S. Presidents have the same birth place and death place: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter.

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ADZk7 TIL about Heinrich Kramer who, after being obsessed with a woman who rejected him sexually, went on to write Malleus Maleficarum, a book that explained how to find and destroy witches, causing the beginning of the massive witch hunt during the dark ages and the countless murders of innocents
Axox TIL after describing female journalists as “buck-and-a-half hookers”, Frank Sinatra was under siege for 3 days in a Sydney hotel and stranded because airport union staff refused him service, declaring “If you don’t apologise, you won’t be allowed to leave Australia unless you can walk on water.”
XOyk TIL the Cofounder of CPAC Led a Double Life as a Promiscuous Homosexual Who Died of AIDS
yVZjv TIL a group of pandas is most commonly called an "Embarrassment of pandas"
VM4XB TIL about Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" at SRI in 1968. He presented the demo of technologies such as mouse pointer, realtime document collaboration, hypertext links and video conferencing, in 1968, 52 years ago