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TIL that every US President is/was related to George Washington, except Gerald Ford.

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BrDly TIL there is a whole area of Greece autonomously ruled by the Orthodox church and that only men are allowed to enter
9wN4B TIL the orbits of the planets are coplanar because during the Solar System's formation, the planets formed out of a disk of dust which surrounded the Sun. Because that disk of dust was a disk, all in a plane, all of the planets formed in a plane as well.
Oov47 TIL: That the Netherlands Flood Defense System includes 2 of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World. Dutch government spends >1BN euro/yr ensuring that its extensive system of dikes/dams/levies are held to a standard of 1 flood every 10,000 years, this includes depositing 3.1bn gallons of sand on shores.
7rxmb TIL the idea for the ATM cash machine came about when its inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, took a bath after his bank branch had closed for the day and was inspired by chocolate bar vending machines
rDBy TIL that one of the principal designers of the B-2 Stealth bomber, a man who once deemed himself “father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles” is currently in supermax prison for selling classified information to China.