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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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BgQJD TIL Church's Chicken Operates Internationally as "Texas Chicken", with Locations Including Pakistan, New Zealand, Mexico, Thailand, and Saint Lucia
p7YQ TIL a convicted member of the Mafia escaped from his prison cell by sawing through the bars… with dental floss… in the year 2000
AWvx TIL the band Devo takes their name from their concept of ‘de-evolution’ - the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.
4XNXw TIL that the original iphone prototypes were so secretive that the engineers had their own OS called the 'skankphone' only a few engineers got to see the real OS and worked together debugging code through a curtain.
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