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Jun 30, 2020

TIL that when Wyoming applied to join the US, Congress warned they'd have to stop letting women vote. Their response was "We will remain out of the Union 100 years rather than come in without the women". In 1890, they finally joined as the first and only state allowing women to vote.

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Jun 07, 2020

TIL the maître d’ of the Waldorf Hotel in NYC for 50 years, Oscar Tschirky invented the velvet rope and the Waldorf salad

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Jun 07, 2020

TIL The officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater left his post to go drinking… at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.

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Jun 06, 2020

TIL that during WWII JFK was stranded in the solomon islands, and ended up carving a message into a coconut, that a native delivered to the nearest US base and saved his life

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May 25, 2020

TIL about the Mugwumps, who were Republican political activists who voted Democrat in 1884 to protest GOP financial corruption...

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Apr 30, 2020

TIL Quaker Oats fed disabled children radioactive oatmeal

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Apr 04, 2020

TIL about Witness Trees. These are trees that were present during key moments in American history. They have been known to hide bullets from those events within new layers of wood and bark. To help preserve their historic relevance, a Witness Tree Protection Program was launched in 2006.

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Mar 30, 2020

TIL The Imperial War Museum has an exhibit which lets you listen to the moment guns fell silent, after the WW1 armistice went into effect. They used seismic data to recreate the effect.

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Feb 03, 2020

TIL Winston Churchill predicted lab-grown meat 89 years ago. "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."

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Dec 24, 2019

TIL that tumbleweeds are not actually native to North America, but Russia. While they are a quintessential image of the American West, tumbleweeds arrived from Russia in 1870, and are known to be invasive, often "driving ranchers out of their homes through sheer abundance."

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Dec 07, 2019

TIL that Dr. Seuss was childless, but invented a whole clan of fictional offspring with bizarre talents that he could bring up whenever friends annoyed him by boasting about their own kids' accomplishments. He even got a group of neighborhood kids into posing as them for a fake Christmas card photo

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Sep 17, 2019

TIL According to Josephus (80 AD), a Roman soldier lifted his robe, showed his bare ass to an audience of Jews and farted. This caused a riot. Roman leader Cumunus called in reinforcements. Up to 10,000 people died.

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May 07, 2019

TIL: A "hobo" is someone who travels and finds work. A "tramp" travels, but mostly does not work. A "bum" neither travels nor works.

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