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TIL: The United States once did not have a vice president.

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kao4 TIL that in 1856, William Palmer, as he stepped onto the gallows to be executed for murder, is said to have looked at the trapdoor and exclaimed, “Are you sure it’s safe?”
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47Mo TIL that of over 7,300 U.S. state legislators, only one, a Nebraskan, is openly atheistic