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TIL that, in 2014, a man armed with a knife entered The White House by hopping a fence and running through an unlocked door despite the President being there just minutes before.

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R7rNa TIL: Japan had issues with crow nests on electric infrastructure, so they went and destroyed all of the nests....which prompted the local crow population to just build MORE nests, far in excess to what they actually needed
VBXK8 TIL research suggests "huh?" is a universal syllable. It's used to express confusion in at least 31 different languages, e.g. Icelandic, Dutch, Japanese, Hungarian, Lao, the Aboriginal Australian language Murriny Patha, Cha’palaa (spoken by 3k indigenous Ecuadorians), and of course, English.
PkVg TIL In 1980, the city of Detroit gave Saddam Hussein a key to the city. In recognition of donations he made to local Chaldean churches.
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oRZkL TIL Huey Lewis suffered from a sudden loss of hearing in 2018, which led to his recent decision to sell his music catalogue.