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TIL that the US Vice President is the only officer in the Line of Succession that can ever succeed to the title of President; the remaining officers could only be Acting President

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8vgP TIL that one woman successfully smuggled 2500 jewish children away from the nazis during the holocaust.
rNR0e TIL the Greek orator Demosthenes was said to treat his speech impediment by talking with pebbles in his mouth and shouting above the roar of the ocean waves.
GYAGE TIL that the DNA in ancient dental calculus is a fantastic reservoir for the oral microbiome, which tells us a lot about the behavior, health, and diet of ancient human beings.
wLE7J TIL: James Earl Jones had a terrible stutter as a child and was functionally mute for 8 years because of it. A high school teacher helped him end his silence through Jones' love of poetry.
vWr4 TIL that the movie “Castaway” increased FedEx’s business world wide. After they didn’t even ask for money to be featured in it.