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TIL Abraham Lincoln was reported to be “fond of dumb animals, especially cats.”

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Wv6A TIL there’s a volcano in Indonesia that erupts with blue lava. Local men trek up the mountain daily to mine its sulfur - they carry loads of 180-200 pounds, but the sulfur only sells for only 2.5 cents/pound, so many men make the climb twice a day.
VMRD8 TIL Queen bees face increased chance of execution if they mate with two males rather than one. A colony may kill their queen because of the quality of offspring.
eaw6 TIL President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou were fluent in Mandarin Chinese. During their years in the White House, they would often hold entire conversations in Chinese to prevent the staff and acquaintances from hearing what they were saying.
DrMe TIL that in 1960, a man named Joe Kittinger ascended to the edge of space in a balloon’s gondola, parachuted back to earth and set the record for highest freefall
KOk86 TIL that most of Coheed and Cambria's music follows an overarching Sci Fi story called "The Amory Wars" and that each album was accompanied by a Graphic Novel release