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TIL that 'The Incredibles' takes place in 1962.
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TIL Some animals in Yosemite still carry the Black Plague
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TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
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TIL that Elizabeth Holmes' father was an executive at Enron, a corporation which famously collapsed after it was discovered that they had continually and egregiously defrauded both their own investors and the federal government.
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TIL that the original Gettysburg address was a disaster: no one expected Lincoln to show up, he wasn’t the key speaker, and the reaction from the audience was so muted that he considered the speech a failure
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TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion.