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TIL Adlai Stevenson I and Charles W. Fairbanks are the only Vice Presidents that were candidates for a non-consecutive term for Vice President.

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5VJAk TIL that to deter "train surfers", Indonesia installed concrete balls on chains above the train tracks after earlier trials of barbed wire, hosing down riders with red paint, and threatening them with dogs all failed
4RLa TIL that Hitler’s nephew begged to join U.S. military to fight Nazis in 1944
6904W TIL frogs use their eyeballs to help swallow food “The eyes assist in the swallowing of food as they can be retracted through holes in the skull and help push food down the throat”
4rJ TIL John Wayne, in a 1971 interview with Playboy, said: “I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t feel guilty about the fact that five or ten generations ago these people were slaves”
kOEVd TIL about Semantic Satiation, where if you repeat a word or a phrase or listen to it for too long, it suddenly loses its meaning and doesn't make sense anymore.