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TIL in 1986, 12 members of a Florida jury got stuck in the courthouse elevator for 20 minutes. The jurors were hearing a case against the Otis elevator company.

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4XKmo TIL that as the chair of the RNC, George HW Bush asked Richard Nixon to resign.
W7wxN TIL The sport of Water Polo was invented in Scotland and the first game took place in the River Dee.
5VLO9 TIL Abraham Lincoln was offered by the Taylor administration to appoint him secretary or governor of the Oregon Territory as a consolation for not getting another post in the Land Grant Office. Lincoln declined in favor of returning to Illinois.
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