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TIL that the US is currently in it’s longest period of never having a president die in office.

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Yp9ZP TIL: President Eisenhower hit the same pine tree so many times playing Augusta National that he tried to get the club to remove it in 1956. The club's chairman adjourned the meeting so he wouldn't have to disagree with a sitting POTUS. Sadly the tree had to be removed in 2011 due to an ice storm.
6E8Zw TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.
R7bN4 TIL if you develop an aversion to a food you previously loved but vomited up even just one time after eating, that is called the Garcia Effect. This happens even if you know getting sick had nothing to do with the food you ate and instead was due to a virus.
oRYlL TIL in 1947, Kurt Godel discovered a "loophole" in the US constitution that would permit American democracy to be turned into a dictatorship.
4kVoN TIL about The Battle of Stamford bridge. Where a lone Viking warrior attempted to hold off an army of nearly 15,000 men. The unnamed viking was able to take down 40 men before falling.