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TIL Greta Thunberg is 4'10'' tall

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D16Lg TIL Kennedy and Lincoln were not the only US presidents to suffer brain damage while in office. Teddy Roosevelt suffered permanent damage to his sight after a boxing match with his military aide staged in the White House.
algo TIL The voice of Boomhauer was based on a man who left a voicemail that Mike Judge listened to many times complaining about Beavis and Butthead who also thought the name of the show was ‘Porky’s Butthole.’
yQeRM San Francisco is known for tech bros, a prison island, and, of course, its thick, ever-present, fog. An image submitted to National Geographic’s Travel Photographer of the Year contest shows that iconic fog in action, as it slowly envelops a whole Bay Area town.
gDd8 TIL one of the earliest weapons of mass destruction was used during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585. A Dutch explosive fire ship containing 4 tons of explosive rammed a fortified Spanish bridge, killing 800 spaniards, causing a small tsunami, and vibrating windows 22 miles away
6E7AZ TIL about the Demon Core, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium. It was named as such after it claimed the lives of two scientists at Los Alamos Labratory in 1945/1946