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TIL - that Bluey is a girl

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e055b TIL, President Grover Cleveland, who was born in 1837, and last President in 1897 had a son who lived until 1995.
ADb9B TIL "Closing Time" by Semisonic is not just about people leaving a bar at closing time. Drummer Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Dan Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" & that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar."
7r1Rx TIL The daughter of President Richard Nixon married the grandson of President Eisenhower.
PYp7g TIL during a drill in 1943, the USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa which was carrying US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the time. The entire crew was rumored to have been arrested when they returned to shore.
1aGOW TIL of "Steal This Book", an instruction manual by Abbie hoffman on, among other things, shoplifting, fare evasion, and protesting. 30 publishers refused to print it, and many book stores refused to sell it because people were shoplifting the book, as the title suggested.