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TIL Winston Churchill reportedly saw Pres. Lincoln’s ghost while staying in the White House. Churchill had just gotten out of the bathtub, and saw the specter leaning on the mantle. Churchill, naked, calmly ashed his cigar and said, "Good evening Mr. President, you seem to have me at a disadvantage"

jdYp TIL 80 percent of American seafood is imported.
kO9o7 TIL there are no documented cases of a historical pirate treasure map.
JrNj TIL that “poecilonym” is a synonym for “synonym”.
wvJ TIL In 1986, 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 erupted from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, displacing all the air and suffocating some 1,700 people within 25 kilometers of the lake.
4XYNR TIL some people are unable to visualize imagery in their mind, this condition is called aphantasia