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TIL All of Roosevelt’s speechwriters were out of town the weekend around the Pearl Harbor attack, so he was left alone to draft what was going to be the most important speech of his presidency.

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6Ew98 TIL Breweries in Dorset and Devon counties in England once failed to secure their waste from wildlife creating a colony of drunk seagulls. Seagulls were staggering around, losing their balance, and only vomiting seemed to help them.
NAeQ TIL that the city of Fairbanks, Alaska holds the world’s largest rechargeable battery, which powers the whole city during outages.
OoNOL TIL in 1992 the Natural Law Party only got 0.19% of the UK vote, despite a nearly £1 million campaign and a celebrity endorsement and fundraiser from George Harrison.
R7ryQ TIL: Doctors in Italy fabricated a fake disease to fool the Nazis into avoiding local Jews. They brought them to the Hospital and called it Syndrome K (named after Nazi commander), warning soldiers that it was extremely contagious.
aEZ TIL It’s not possible to delete a Skype account.