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TIL of Hiram Calder, a man who was discovered on his deathbed to have been born a woman—making him the first biological female to vote in Florida due to his participation in every election

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yQMop TIL the tale generally considered to be the first detective story is Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," in 1841. The story describes the extraordinary analytical power used by Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders in Paris.
4XRgo TIL a Florida brewery created edible six-pack rings that feed animals instead of killing them
VBA88 TIL that after the 1984 McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, Burger King suspended all of their advertising in solidarity with McDonald's.
R7P7l TIL events like earthquakes create differences between GMT and UTC that require the introduction of Leap Seconds to keep them in sync, the last one being Dec 31 2016.
oBQN8 TIL the first meeting in history between Japanese emperor Hirohito and US president Richard Nixon was not planned at the outset, because initially the stop in the United States was only for refueling to visit Europe. However, the meeting was decided in a hurry at the request of the United States.