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TIL the US presidential veto has a 96% success rate. Of 2574 vetoes Congress has only overturned 111.

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XENr8 TIL legendary comedian Norm Macdonald had a severe gambling addiction that resulted in him losing all of his money on three separate occasions (largest was 400K at one time). It started with a 6 figure win in a night at a craps table in Atlantic City and grew to 20 online Texas hold'em hands at once
4XNMw TIL of Friedman’s Golden Arches Theory that no two countries with MacDonalds have ever gone to war
JYgAm TIL that Jack Black's mom was a famous satellite engineer who worked on the Minuteman Missile and Hubble Space telescope project
wod0P TIL some of St. Nicholas/Santa Claus’s bones were once gifted to a New York City church by Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. Both the church and the bones were destroyed on 9/11.
woL1M TIL Spain shares a land border with Morocco