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TIL Vehicular traffic has been blocked from Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House since 1995 , following a Secret Service recommendation made after the Oklahoma City bombing

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78897 TIL The Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego, restricts access to parts of its Dr Seuss archives and forbids photography of materials, even to researchers
pBAN TIL in February of 1863, there was a snowball battle amongst rival divisions of Confederate troops in which approximately 10,000 Confederate soldiers participated. It was later described by a participant as “one of the most memorable combats of the war.”
8eQDK TIL if you're unmarried when you turn 25 in Denmark, it is customary for your friends and family to cover you in cinnamon
woyA1 TIL The New Mexico ranch where the 1947 Roswell UFO crash happened opened up to public tours for the first time in 2018. The crash site is not in Roswell but actually by the small town of Corona
9YR6D TIL L Ron Hubbard holds the Guinness World Record for most books published over a lifetime, with over a thousand books.