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TIL that there is a desk full of candy in the US Senate
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TIL there's 20-40x less oxygen in water than air.
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TIL after a wave of plane hijackers demanded passage to Cuba in the 1960s, the FAA considered building a fake Havana airport in Florida. US agents would wait for the plane to land and arrest the unsuspecting hijackers.
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TIL Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) was the first future US President to be born in a hospital
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TIL lawyers from the Disney corporation denied a couple’s request to engrave Winnie Pooh on the gravestone of their stillborn child without paying royalties.
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TIL Aldous Huxley, the writer of Brave New World, died tripping on acid. 6 hours before his death he requested 100 micrograms of acid to be injected intramuscularly which was given to him moments later. His death, like that of CS Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of JFK.