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TIL that Richard Nixon is the only former U.S. president to refuse protection from the Secret Service after leaving office. He called the program, which provides lifetime protection to all former presidents, a waste of money.

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lpJa TIL Sony and other Japanese companies have banishment rooms where they transfer surplus employees and give them menial or useless tasks or even nothing to do until they become depressed or disheartened enough to quit on their own, thus not getting full benefits.
eepD TIL that Albert Einstein worked as an electrician on the Oktoberfest 1896.
PYdlg TIL the world's first computer: The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). Originally built at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering, in 1946, ENIAC weighed 60,000 pounds and took up a room larger than most studio apartments (1,500 square feet).
OG9Z1 TIL that the I.C.’s oldest member, the Naval Intelligence Enterprise (NIE), can trace its origins back to the revolutionary era.
grxV4 TIL there was a British plan during WWIl to seal up soldiers in a hidden Gibraltar bunker so they could observe German military movements even if Gibraltar was captured.