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TIL That Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had, in his long lifetime, shaken hands with John Quincy Adams (b. 1767) and John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)

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4Yrb TIL during a Space Shuttle launch abort in 1984, leaking hydrogen was causing a fire invisible to human eyes. If the astronauts had evacuated according to the emergency procedure, they would have been incinerated by it.
GkM1 TIL in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen against an conservative, ex-military Republican incumbent. Thompson shaved his head totally bald, so he could refer to the competing party, who was sporting a close-cropped crewcut, as ‘my longhaired opponent’ in speeches and interviews.
X0VN6 TIL ice II was discovered in 1900. It is today one of the nineteen known phases of ice.
D1D6r TIL that the notorious vanishing hijacker's actually alias was Dan Cooper and not D B Cooper. D B Cooper was a mistake by the press that stuck.
rRmDM TIL Alberta is the only place in the world where you are legally allowed to throw coins at strippers