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Today I Learned How Vinegar is Made

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gMDEb TIL that Lincoln loved cats so much that he once fed them from the table during a formal White House dinner. When his wife told him that it was “shameful in front of their guests,” he replied “If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.”
YpE7A TIL Prisoners are counted by the census as residents of towns in which they are jailed. Dramatically distorting those communities representation at local and state levels.
gMbaA TIL that the @ symbol has been in use since the 1500s as an accounting abbreviation for "at the rate of". As in “12 widgets @ $1.” (The total would be $12, $1 each).
QJR6p TIL the NBA's Vlade Divac replaced both Kareem Abdjl-Jabbar (1989) and Shaquille O'Neal (2004) on the Los Angeles Lakers
Gk4Q TIL North Korea might be facing one of the world’s worst epidemics of meth users.