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TIL Converse Sneakers have felt on the bottom because that classifies them as slippers, which have a lower tariff.

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Z88xG TIL that in 1981, after Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt, when he was rushed to the hospital he told the doctors before they all operated on him, "I hope you are all republicans."
GXxj TIL after outlaw Big George Nose was killed, the doctor’s performing the autopsy turned his skull into an ashtray and his skin into shoes. The doctor that kept the skull was the first female doctor in Wyoming and the doctor that kept the shoes wore them to his inauguration as governor of Wyoming
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XpBj TIL that Arm & Hammer, the baking soda company, was purchased by Armand Hammer, a business tycoon, who was named after the symbol for the Socialist Labor Party of America - an Arm and Hammer.