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TIL that during his Illinois senatorial campaign, Lincoln claimed he didn’t believe in racial equality between blacks and whites of any kind.

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v5QR TIL that a small town in England has hosted a mob ‘football’ game annually for over 800 years. There is only one rule: Players are not allowed to kill one another.
x4O0 TIL that domestic cats instinctively don’t want to drink from the water bowl next to their food, and therefore seek it out first elsewhere in the house, because in the wild any water next to their kill might be contaminated.
jyOp TIL The United States first space station, Skylab crashed in Australia. The county where it crashed fined NASA $400 for littering. NASA never paid the ticket.
W7LMX TIL the Heinz factory in Wigan produces up to 3 million tins of baked beans a day
8aWZb TIL: Even though the 5th card is easier to get on a flush (35%) vs a straight (31.5% or less), the odds of getting the first four cards to a flush are nearly half that of getting four cards to a straight. This is why flushes are ranked higher.