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TIL that whilst he ultimately lost the 1896 Presidential Election, 36 year old William Jennings Bryan became the youngest person in American History to win an electoral vote, winning 176 of the 447 Electoral Votes at the time.

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e4o6 TIL scientists have identified an asteroid in our solar system, 16 Psyche, which has enough iron to fuel planetary consumption for millions of years. The Earth may have as little as a century of mineable iron left, in contrast.
V4k0 TIL when James Brady (the man paralyzed by a gunshot wound from the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt) died in 2014, it was ruled a homicide 33 years after the incident.
OdV4 TIL that Oaksterdam University is an internationally recognized college that trains students for the cannabis industry, with a mission to “legitimize the business and change the law to make cannabis legal”
KY0vB TIL PFC Jimmy W. Phipps, A US Marine was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action that occured on May 27, 1969 in Vietnam. He saved the Lives of 2 other Marines in a rice paddy field by shielding them from the blast of an ignited secondary enemy explosive device and was mortally wounded.
P1eeJ TIL that at the ancient Olympics, cheating athletes would be fined and the fines used to build bronze statues at the entrance of the Olympic stadium, each inscribed with the name of the cheater and how they cheated