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TIL Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital

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lPQ1 TIL Google invented a fake town and placed it on Google Maps. It is believed that this was a form of DRM to let Google know who was copying their maps.
9YA9p TIL of Hannah Senesh, a Jewish paratrooper and poet during the Holocaust. She was captured, tortured, and eventually executed, but never gave up her comrades. "I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."
ANaVa TIL most illustrations of the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down show Tower Bridge instead.
Br5dx TIL - To help small businesses compete with Amazon, a Seattle man built an extension that pulls together the inventory from thousands of independent shops and lets you browse it by product, price and distance from you
E1o1P TIL A Royal Navy Sea Harrier once did an emergency landing on a Spanish Cargo ship and the crew claimed the fighter jet as legitimate salvage