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TIL that when Abraham Lincoln took off his Stovepipe Hat to give his first Inaugural Address, he awkwardly looked around for a place to put it. The losing Presidential Candidate, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, stepped forward, said “Permit me,” and took the hat to hold on his knee during the address.

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Zp00Y TIL Pseudacteon are flies who put their eggs into worker ants. The fly larva then turn the ant into a zombie and pilots it away from the nest. The ant's head falls off and the fly emerges two weeks later. Pseudacteon has been introduced as ant population controls.
LW6V TIL: A man who was high on meth fought off 15 police officers while masturbating. Even a taser had no effect.
A7nw TIL that the solution of the Monty Hall problem (that asks to pick one of three doors to win a car, the picked door remains closed and the third one opens, then asks if you want to switch or not) is so counterintuitive that mathematician Paul Erdos was unconvinced until he saw a simulation of it
9VoG TIL that self-perceived unattractive people are more inclined to care about equality issues and hold liberal values where as self-perceived attractive people are less likely to care about equality movements and hold conservative values.
BroAW TIL Sir Roger Moore turned fifty-seven during the filming of A View to a Kill, 1985, making him the oldest actor to play Bond. He decided to quit the role afterwards as he realised that he was older than his Bond Girl's (Tanya Roberts') mother.