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TIL playing “Hail to the Chief” when the President enters a room started because James Polk’s wife was worried no one would notice him when he entered a room because of his modest height.

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p8L0Z TIL Blind people don’t suffer from schizophrenia
Ya17 TIL on the Set of “Charlie’s angel’s” Bill Murray said “you can’t act” to Lucy Liu during a scene. She was so enraged she threw punches at him and the production was shut down for the day. Their inability to work together caused Murray to be replaced with Bernie Mac for the sequel
68WJ TIL Airline food tastes bland because your taste buds go numb at high altitudes
awORM TIL that workers on Antarctica are starting to develop an accent. The way the Antarctic “winterers” are together for several months is similar to a colonial settlement: there's no access to/from Antarctica in winter and they're in regular (spoken) contact with each other.
kJYkE TIL that there was an FBI agent that warned them that Al-Qaeda would attempt to bomb the world trade center again, and he died in 9/11 after he left the FBI