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

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GYZOJ TIL it’s a 50+ year old tradition in Sweden to watch a specific Donald Duck cartoon at exactly 3pm on Christmas Eve. Approximately half the country tunes in to watch every year.
kJrVe TIL there is a depleted gold mine in Yellowknife, Canada that is sitting on 237,000 tonnes of Arsenic. The mining company had exhausted the area of gold and handed it back to the federal government, which is now freezing the Arsenic to keep it contained.
j8KQ TIL The Second Congo War, or “The Great War of Africa” (1998-2003), was by far the deadliest war to occur during the last 20 years, with estimates of between 2.7 and 5.4 million deaths.
e0baD TIL that Led Zeppelin may have played at the Wheaton Youth Center in Maryland, but with no known recordings, photographs, or any other physical evidence that the concert took place, it has turned into something of an urban legend.
P1kWZ TIL of Louis Wyman - Winner of 1974 New Hampshire Senate Election by just 2 votes, and served only 3 days while marred in an epic dispute then lost a rematch the next year convincingly