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TIL Andrew Johnson got “really, extremely, terribly, infuriously, youthfully drunk” after the death of Abraham Lincoln… and then continued to take his Presidential Oath of Office hungover.

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dDZRQ TIL that the top seven US currency demonimations in circulation, based on volume, are: $100, $1, $20, $5, $50, $10, and $2. For instance, in 2021, there were 17.7 billion $100 bills, but only 1.4 billion $2 bills.
KY0ow TIL NBA Jam did not include Gary Payton or Michael Jordan, however these two contacted Midway to have special versions created with them included for their own personal use.
owdr TIL that rats in New York City carry numerous diseases, in a sample of 133 rats, scientists discovered 18 different viruses known to infect humans. In fact, scientists even discovered some viruses that were previously unknown to have existed.
XErm8 TIL about Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky a Russian photographer who traveled the Russian Empire from around 1909 to 1915, and would take 3 individual black-and-white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality pictures in full color way before full color images were available.
woXd7 TIL that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, aka Mormon Church, was assassinated in 1844 in Illinois by a mob. He was running for president at the time and is the first presidential candidate in US History to be assassinated