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TIL during Grover Cleveland’s election campaign, it emerged that he had a possible illegitimate child. The campaign said it was true and that Grover had done his best in dealing with it. The mother disagreed- she said Grover had assaulted her, then had the baby taken from her and had her committed.

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NyLe TIL Tanks from WW1 were originally to be called Landships but the factory workers who were building them referred to them as Tanks because they resembled steel water tanks and the British concerned with secrecy kept that name.
DQLEj TIL that kids don’t have solid, fully-formed kneecaps until 10-12 years old. 🤯 Explains why babies can crawl almost anywhere without pain.
KP0J TIL cats “directly register”, meaning that while walking, their back paws land in the same spot as their front paws, which minimizes noise and visible tracks.
nWoOo TIL Surgeons that grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors and had a 33% faster completion rate on performing laparoscopic surgery
8V4b TIL A man named Dan Goodwin climbed the north World Trade Center tower in 1983 to call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.