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TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.

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VBkZQ TIL about London bus driver, Albert Gunter. He found his bus on the London Bridge just was it was opening for a ship. He slammed the gas and jumped the gap. For this, he was given a bonus of £10 (about £290 in today’s money)
6Eprw TIL: The Courthouse Square from “Back to the Future” also appeared in many other iconic films including: “Inherit the Wind,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Music Man.” It also shows up in “Bruce Almighty.”
nWEvG TIL that the world's second most expensive building is The Clock Towers complex in Mecca, which had a total construction cost of 15 billion USD. It was built by the Saudi Binladin Group, whose founder is the father of Osama Bin Laden. Construction began in 2002, and opened in 2012
deX8 TIL during World War 1, feminists and suffragettes handed out white feathers to shame men into enlisting in the army and lobbied for instituting an involuntary draft of men, including those who lacked votes due to being too young or not owning property.
MeVM8 TIL the restaurant chain TGI Fridays stopped its waiters from wearing “flair” a few years after the movie Office Space came out because people wouldn’t stop making Office Space references about it.