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TIL that you are more creative when you are tired or drunk

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VM08k TIL When being sworn in as Vice President, Andrew Johnson gave a drunken address to Congress while Lincoln watched sadly. Afterwards he hid from ridicule at a friends house and Lincoln assured the public he wasn’t a “drunkard”. A month later Lincoln was assassinated and he became President.
4kBab TIL tha in the United States, peanut butter must contain at least 90% peanuts. If it contains less than 90% peanuts, it must be labeled as 'peanut spread'.
5Zdn TIL that Scotland was one of the few countries that was able to hold off being conquered by the Romans
R75pw TIL that the eleven points of the maple leaf of the Canadian flag has no special significance: the number and arrangement of the points were chosen after wind tunnel tests and the chosen pattern is the least blurred under high winds.
j68nM TIL that a U.S general named Joe Potter was responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal Zone, the 1964 Worlds Fair and finally Disney World