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TIL The two richest presidents were George Washington, with an estimated net worth of $525 million, and JFK, with a family fortune of $1 billion

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gpy8 TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan which included 60 US troops, 64 South Korean Special Forces troops, 7 attack heli’s, an array of attack jets, nuclear ready B-52 bombers, and 12,00 troops on stand-by to finish cutting down a tree after North Korean soldiers killed 2 US soldiers cutting a tree.
4XdOa TIL that the NBC page program is extremely prestigious and even more competitive than Ivy League admissions. Many pages go on to have successful careers in the entertainment industry and notable former pages include Regis Philbin, Michael Eisner and Aubrey Plaza.
QGRk Today I Learned Mick Jagger is a great grandfather, and also has a 15 year old son
m18Xy TIL tiny Neolithic baby spoons indicate that new baby gruels were an important innovation in prehistoric baby-care, freeing up women to have more babies & leading to unprecedented population growth
ldnB TIL There are only two countries in the world where 100% of the population are recorded as being English speakers. These are Gibraltar and Nauru.