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TIL that the last US President elected from outside the Republican and Democratic parties was technically Abraham Lincoln who ran under the National Union name

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VMgvD TIL Admiral Jeremiah Denton Jr. used his eyes to blink the word "TORTURE" using Morse Code during his captivity in Vietnam.
nD7B TIL one of the leading advocates of circumcision was John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the famous breakfast cereal. He advocated the consumption of Kellogg’s corn flakes to prevent masturbation, and he believed that circumcision would be an effective way to eliminate masturbation in males.
EgKMw TIL that persistent, long term cannabis use can lead to CHS, one of the symptoms of which is "scromiting."
ADvX7 TIL in the first test of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, the connection crashed after the first two of five characters were transmitted
v1k4D TIL, there are only 3 countries in the world that still use the Imperial System. These countries are Myanmar (or Burma), Liberia and of course, The United States of America.