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TIL that when Dr. Seuss was having writer’s block he would retreat to a secret closet containing a collection of hats he would wear for inspiration

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yQEVV TIL Pres. Lincoln visited a field hospital and offered his hand to a wounded soldier. "Mr. President, do you know to whom you offer your hand?" "I do not," Lincoln said. "Well, you offer it to a Confederate colonel." Lincoln replied: "Well, I hope a Confederate colonel will not refuse me his hand."
6EwOw TIL of the University of Sydney Pirates. In 1957, a group of 10 students dressed as pirates and boarded the U.S.S. Bennington. They then snuck to the bridge where they proclaimed, over the PA system of the ship, that "The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!"
b9OON TIL Ants are skilled farmers. Many species of ants purposely grow an edible fungus inside the nest that the ants feed upon, to ensure that the nest isn't wiped out by starvation when food is scarce.
XYeX TIL while on duty at a Soviet nuclear attack warning station in 1983, Stanislav Petrov’s computer indicated the US had fired several missles. He decided his computer was faulty and urged against a launch. He was right, averting nuclear war, but was not rewarded and was reprimanded by his superiors.
wekJ TIL there is a registered satirical party in Germany named “The Party”(politically). Their youth organisation is the “Hintner Jugend”. Their goals are to rebuild the Berlin Wall, a CEO quota for lazy people and making the tax system even more complicated (among others).