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TIL that JFK and Garfield were the only two US presidents to end their terms under the age of 50. Both were assassinated.

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QLba TIL that boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise money for underprivileged Ukranian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the Klitschko family.
ZpKeY TIL total solar eclipses happen only once every four hundred years, and the next one is on 4/8!
woPY6 TIL Frank Sinatra was contractually obliged to be offered first refusal of John McClane in Die Hard
woOoE TIL that the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard isn't in Portsmouth. The Norfolk Naval Ship Yard isn't in Norfolk, either; it's in Portsmouth
wLEvJ TIL of the "Chicken poop prison" in Thailand. The ceiling of the cells was a grate, and chickens were cared for above the cell. Their droppings were then allowed to drop freely onto the inmate within.