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XEnLX TIL The Draft Eisenhower movement was the only successful political draft of the 20th century to take a private citizen to the Oval Office. It was a widespread American grassroots political movement that eventually persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President.
rRJg0 TIL that villages in Northern Portugal mark their boats and homes with runic symbols depending on which family they belong to. These same symbols have been found in Fyn Denmark where it's called "bomarken" or "home-marks" and was a widely held practice in older Scandinavia.
ADJVB TIL that, many years after chewing gum had been around, in 1906, the first BUBBLE gum ever sold was called Bilbber-Blubber