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TIL Ulysses S. Grant appointed several Black and Jewish leaders to office during his presidency.

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N8L1 TIL Dutch people eat the most licorice in the world.
D1LjJ TIL In a letter to the Emperor Theophilus, Jesus Christ was described as being 3 cubits, which is 4 feet, 6 inches tall (137 cm).
4kXQg TIL that, on October 30, 1939, just under two months into World War II, a German U-boat submarine fired three torpedoes at the ship carrying soon-to-be Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but none of them exploded. Commander Wilhelm Zahn became known as "The Man Who Almost Killed Churchill".
oRWmA TIL St. Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy.
rRAox TIL Mars Corporation discontinued a candy bar with $50m in sales because the Mars family did not like peanut butter