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TIL that a 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession.

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Y7prP TIL more soldiers were executed during the civil war than all other American wars combined. Two-thirds of them were for desertion.
yVvWX TIL that Chuck Taylor All-Stars have been around for over 100 years
a8Y4L TIL Thomas Jefferson is considered to be the inventor of the Swivel Chair, which he created and sat on while writing the United States Declaration of Independence at the age of 32.
xV5Y5 TIL Clara Barton held a clerkship in the US Patent Office with pay equal to that of men. She was the first woman to hold a position or pay of this type in government. Being wrongly fired in 1857 she returned under Lincoln as a copyist to help pave the way for future women's equality in government.
69K07 TIL in 2010, a judge dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by consumers who claimed they were misled to believe that Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries breakfast cereal contained nutritional value derived from real fruit, calling the suit “nonsense.” Two similar lawsuits had previously been dismissed.