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TIL that the US Congress never officially voted on Ohio’s statehood until 1953 due to an oversight—despite the state celebrating its founding in 1803

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neZpr TIL that the Japanese language has only 100 syllables. But, it takes knowledge of about 1900 characters to write words with them. English has over 2600 one-syllable words, and thousands of different syllables, all of which are written using only 26 characters.
E1g7V TIL that a 2012 survey of 1,000 Americans found that 45% of them wished they could skip Christmas due to financial pressures
d8JA7 TIL that in 1976, When the Dueling Pistols used by Alexander Hamilton and Arron Burr were examined by the Smithsonian, It was Discovered that One of the Pistols was Fixed with a Hair-Trigger Discharge to Secretly give its Holder an Advantage. The Owner of the Pistol Set was Alexander Hamilton
jNJdj TIL President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover were both fluent in Chinese and would speak it to each other in the White House to prevent eavesdropping.
WelY TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.