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TIL that in 1805 Thomas Jefferson hosted an Iftar at the White House. An Iftar is the fast-breaking meal eaten at sunset during Ramadan.

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1akX8 TIL The Ceratodontimorpha is a "living fossil" fish with a highly specialized respiratory system to switch from gills to real lung when it crawls on dry land. They are also capable of surviving seasonal drying by burrowing into mud, secrete a mucus which encloses them in a cocoon...for years.
QY1M TIL that peeling scotch tape in vacum generates enough x-ray to image a human finger
yVLgV TIL there hasn't been a Major League Baseball player who regularly played catcher left-handed since Jack Clements, who played from 1884 to 1900. Clements was also the first catcher to wear a chest protector.
PPRg TIL Dorothy Kilgallen, a regular on the show “What’s My Line?”, claimed to have interviewed Jack Ruby and that she was “about to blow the JFK case sky high.” She was found dead in 1965 and the cause of death was officially ruled as undetermined.
Z8Dev TIL that roughly one out of every three socks you wear was made in a place known as “Sock City”. A small Chinese village in the 1980s it has grown to employ over 100,000 people and produces 8 billion socks a year.