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TIL that Foundation series by Issac Asimov won Hugo award for best all time series in 1966. The Lord of the Rings was runner up.

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awl9N TIL Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido was murdered by a knife-wielding drunk guy a few months after Lincoln’s assassination.
PYPMg TIL exactly 45 years ago (12/06/73), Nixon used his power under the 25th Amendment to appoint Ford as his new vice president the United States. To date, Ford remains the only person to assume the roles of both President and Vice President without having been elected by the electoral college.
4oR5 TIL that the first automated telephone exchange was created by Almon B. Strowger, because a competitor’s wife was the operator of his local exchange, and therefore redirected calls meant for him to her husband’s business instead.
4Vkg TIL Historians have often credited Thomas Jefferson with introducing macaroni and cheese to the United States.
lovJN TIL That in 1962, a US spy plane pilot wandered off course and penetrated Soviet airspace, where he avoided intercept by Soviet MiGs, ran out of gas and glided back to Alaska. And oh -- this was right in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis.