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TIL Gerald Ford became both American vice-president and president without being elected to either office.

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e0NPg TIL about “whataboutisms” - a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.
gMK44 TIL In 2013, the state of Mississippi officially ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. Until that time, the state had not submitted the required documents for it to officially complete the ratification process.
kJ7Nd TIL it would take 190 million years to read every possible permutation of Raymond Queneau's book "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" The book consists of 10 sonnets of 14 lines each, all sharing the same rhyme scheme and pentameter & cut to be able to mix and match poems 10x14th power different ways
OoRYa TIL that 85-90% of cancers are due to people's environment and lifestyles
pY7NO TIL about Leon Whiteley, a 26-year-old British man who cycled eastward from Portugal to China. 176 days in, at a teahouse in Kazakhstan, he met Noel Kegel -- an 27-year-old American man who was making a similar journey west