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TIL that Woodrow Wilson is the only president of the United States to have earned a Ph.D

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6E6Rl TIL While sliding down the pole in "Jailhouse Rock", Elvis lost the cap off of a tooth. It was discovered that he had aspirated the cap and that it had lodged in his lung. It was successfully removed by a surgeon, who parted his vocal cords to retrieve it
KOgx4 TIL that instead of generating a fever themselves, cold-blooded animals will move themselves to a hotter area to cause a fever when they have an infection
0d85v TIL that Tchaikovsky received financial support from a patron that allowed him to pursue a career as a full-time composer. However, the patron stipulated that they should never meet in person.
jNVrn TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him
QNdL9 TIL that Samuel L. Jackson agreed to star in "Snakes on a Plane", and then the producers tried to change the title but didn't because Jackson agreed to do the film because of the title.