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TIL that there is one-way bullet resistant glass.
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TIL that the SS Warrimoo positioned itself to be in two different seasons, hemispheres, days, months, years, decades, and centuries all at the same time.
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TIL the secret service was created on April 14th, 1865 by Abraham Lincoln…the same day he was assassinated.
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TIL Pres. Lincoln visited a field hospital and offered his hand to a wounded soldier. "Mr. President, do you know to whom you offer your hand?" "I do not," Lincoln said. "Well, you offer it to a Confederate colonel." Lincoln replied: "Well, I hope a Confederate colonel will not refuse me his hand."
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TIL about Chesterton's Fence, i.e. the principle that you should not make reforms to a system without first understanding the current state of affairs present in that system.
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TIL “Pop goes the Weasel” is about booze. Pop is English slang for pawning and weasel is for a suit. The Eagle was a London pub. “Up and down the city road, in and out of The Eagle, that’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel” means drinking until you need to pawn things to buy more booze.