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TIL Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital.

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PY9GL TIL that despite having starring in roles in Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, Captain Phillips, Sully, Bridge of Spies, and The Post, Tom Hanks has not been nominated for an Oscar for 17 years
8OlK TIL Monopoly evolved from The Landlord’s Game, a Socialist board game meant to teach players the evil of monopolies and benefits of a more egalitarian economic system. If played using the Socialist rules, everyone could be a winner.
QN8w6 TIL Metallica played a concert in Antarctica to an audience of scientists, thus becoming the first musical act to play on all seven continents.
7KgZ TIL In 1939, Georg Elser, a 36-year-old carpenter from a small town in southern Germany, spent 30 nights hollowing out a pillar in a German beer hall in order to plant a bomb. Acting in secret and without the help of anyone else, he had a meticulous plan to kill Adolph Hitler. He almost succeeded.
OOV6 TIL Rolls Royce offers a course called “White Glove Experience” to teach chauffeur’s how to, among other things, minimize fingerprints on door handles and brake the car without kickback.