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TIL there are a number of voice recordings of Theodore Roosevelt from his 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign

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looKN TIL Jamaica is the only country flag without red, white or blue.
lVdB TIL Air conditioners are rated according to how many tons of ice would have to melt in your house during the day to keep it cool
QNZ5E Today I learned that a schoolteacher called Angela Ruiz Robles invented the precursor to the e-book in 1948
nWJ19 TIL P.T. Barnum showed off a “161”-year-old woman. After her death in 1836, an autopsy was performed and it concluded that her body was not >80 years old, aligning more closely with persons in their 70s than those >100 years
VeWm TIL genders of articles affect the way users perceive objects. When asked to describe a “key” (a masculine word in Deutch and feminine in Spanish) Deutch speakers used words like “hard,” “jagged,” “metal,” and Spanish speakers used works like “little,” “lovely,” “shiny,” All testing was in English