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TIL that the US House of Representatives has a silver mace of justice.

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YpYLd TIL about sailors who discovered a dead German sailor during the Clipper Boat Race
ep4y6 TIL Candy Bar Wrappers are Often a Composite of Aluminum and Plastic. The Two are Difficult to Separate and thus Candy Wrappers are Deemed 'Unrecyclable.'
grPW4 TIL that if Churchill had been incapacitated during the Second World War, one plan was to replace him as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.
8pOb TIL that in 2008 Upper Deck released a “baseball” card of Abraham Lincoln that included an actual strand of Abe’s hair.
Zywa TIL Mark Twain wrote that Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs are “an unapproachable literary masterpiece” and that the memoirs are regarded as the best military memoirs in existence.