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TIL President Theodore Roosevelt, an avowed environmentalist, banned Christmas trees from the White House during his presidency.

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R58MQ TIL that the last Prisoner of War of WW2 who has been repatriated was Hungarian András Toma in 2000, captured in 1945 by the Red Army. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1947 and got removed from the POW lists because of that.
Ooev7 TIL after finding a bloodied and dazed 14 year old boy with a drilled hole in his head, police returned him to the serial killer he just escaped from, assuming it was just a quarrel between two lovers
mGjE TIL that you can still differentiate between East/West Germany from space, because the different types of streetlamps used give off different shades of light
40bJ TIL that two Undercover Agents repeatedly tried to buy marijuana at the Lagunitas Brewing company taproom, but were unable to make any busts as generous patron’s kept trying to give them the drugs for free.
awWNb TIL Eric Yuan, the founder of Zoom Video Communications, got rejected visa 8 times. before he got approved to move to the US in the mid-1990s.