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TIL President Jimmy Carter became the parole officer of his daughters nanny so she could work in the White House.

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DQGkY TIL of “character amnesia,” a phenomenon where native Chinese speakers have trouble writing words once known to them due to the rise of computers and word processors. The issue is so prevalent that there is an idiom describing it: 提笔忘字, literally meaning "pick up pen, forget the character."
woGYY TIL that NORTHERN Ireland is almost exactly the same size as Connecticut.
VAy4 TIL In 1906 a German shoemaker, Wilhelm Voigt, impersonated a military officer and tricked a group of soldiers into helping him rob a small town. Kaiser Willhelm II thought it was so funny that he personally pardoned Voigt.
kOaPB TIL that in 2000, a drug bust at an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Kansas led to a 95% drop in availability of LSD in the United States for two years.
KRb6 TIL: In 1984 on CBS, a man won $110,237 in cash and prizes, more than anyone in the history of game shows to that point, by hitting 31 squares in a row and no Whammies on “Press Your Luck”. That episode has only been shown once.