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TIL Aware of his own shortcomings in formal education, Abraham Lincoln mastered six books of Euclid’s Elements on his own in his early forties. Lincoln believed Euclid challenged him intellectually and made him into a better lawyer
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TIL a sheep farmer in France became a national hero, wrote a best seller book and ran for president after he took his tractor and drove it through a mcdonalds as a protest because he hated what the fast food restaurant was doing to farmers.
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TIL people who didn't wear masks during the 1918 flu pandemic were called 'mask slackers', and those enforcing the rules were armed, which led to gun fights and hundreds of arrests.