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TIL the Vice President of the United States misspelling “potato” was once enough to cause a national scandal.

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Oo4DX TIL that Bill Gates' mother, Mary, knew John Opel, CEO of IBM, because both served on the national United Way committee. At Mary's request, Opel set up a meeting with Bill Gates, CEO of then-small software firm Microsoft, to discuss the possibility of using PC-DOS for IBM's about-to-be-released PC.
EAN0 TIL the Burj Khalifa is so tall that residents above the 80th floor have to wait 2-3 minutes longer to end Ramadan
kO0v7 TIL According to NASA, "...a one- to two-degree drop [in the global temperature] was all it took to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age. A five-degree drop was enough to bury a large part of North America under a towering mass of ice 20,000 years ago."
JYAVj TIL dogs can "laugh" when they're playful. Researchers played recordings of dogs laughing to stressed shelter dogs, resulting in the dogs showing significantly fewer signs of stress. Many of the dogs and puppies began to bounce around, and responded with laughs of their own.
oBjVA TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.