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TIL President Garfield could write in two languages simultaneously, Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.

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a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.
e0GwL TIL that James McAvoy was so addicted to playing Oblivion that it affected his work on the movie Becoming Jane, so he put the game disc on a gas stove and watched it burn and melt
yy9e TIL that baseball hand signals, such as safe and out, were invented by a 19th century deaf player named Dummy Hoy so he could comprehend what was going on in his games.
WkOmA TIL France has 58 nuclear reactors, generating 71.6% of the country's total electricity, a larger percent than any other nation. France turned to nuclear in response to the 1973 oil crisis. The situation was summarized in a slogan, "In France, we do not have oil, but we have ideas."
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