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TIL when signing a bill the President signs with different pens and those pens are the gift to the people that contributed most to the bill.

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lobv5 TIL that Despite its name, no part of Equatorial Guinea's territory lies on the equator— it is in the northern hemisphere, except for the insular Annobón Province, which is about 155 km (96 mi) south of the equator.
LDX0 TIL- Weather Modification Warfare has been banned by the United Nations
BrOmd TIL that an eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre appeared on a nationally televised game show with Lucile Ball.
R5gN6 TIL that two players on the New York Yankees traded families in 1973, including swapping wives and even their children! Both players simply swapped lives with their teammate.
N7y41 TIL In Medieval England, villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising up. They were so afraid of the dead coming back, that they chopped, smashed and burned their bodies to make sure they stayed in their graves.