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eJk4 TIL that Benjamin Franklin enjoyed the company of older women to such an extent, he wrote a letter explaining why it he should make one his mistress. He backed his reasoning by pointing out older women couldn’t have children and that the sex could be just as good.
vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.
7L7O TIL Thomas Jefferson believed that The Constitution should expire every 19 years.