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

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MybV TIL that there is 10 gallons of oil in every tire & roughly 2% of the United State’s annual oil consumption is discarded tires.
v4aK TIL Tic Tac Toe is a dumbed down version of a game called “Nine Men’s Morris” from the Roman Empire
jDyX TIL of Castner’s Cutthroats, a platoon of Army scouts who served in the Aleutian Islands Campaign of WW2. The group was composed of trappers, hunters, miners and Native Alaskans. They seldom used ranks and never wore uniforms. In addition to recon missions, they fought in the bloody Battle of Attu.
X0jrX TIL The pistol shrimp can produce a flash of light near the temperature of the sun in addition to a powerfull shockwave similar to a bubble bullet
oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.