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TIL US President Lyndon Johnson installed a shower in the White House that had the intensity of a firehouse and got so hot it regularly set of the fire alarms. One of Nixon's first acts as president was to have the shower torn out.

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KOmBB TIL Chile's Atacama Desert is among the very driest places on the planet, so arid that rain may not fall on it for decades or centuries at a time. This makes the hostile landscape about the closest thing we have to Mars on Earth – and scientists just made a big discovery about it.
BrDMd TIL that Genrich Altshuller, a Soviet engineer, was given a 25-year prison sentence for sending Joseph Stalin a letter explaining a desire to improve Soviet engineering. He later went on to write science fiction books and found a famous engineering school.
E1DVV TIL: In March 2015, McDonald’s workers who allegedly suffered severe burns on the job have filed health and safety complaints. The complaints allege that, because of a lack of first aid supplies, workers were told by management to treat burn injuries with condiments such as mayonnaise and mustard.
AD5ao TIL of a tribe in the Vanavatu Islands which worship Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh (Husband of Queen Elisabeth II) as a divine being
4xrw TIL the brewery in Belgium that created and produces Stella Artois pilsner beer was founded in 1366 as the “Den Hoorn” brewery in Leuven and turns 650 this year. It became “Brouwerij Artois” in 1717. The horn logo is recognized as the oldest known continuously-used company logo in the world.