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TIL that American President Calvin Coolidge confused the entire world when he declared, "I Do Not Choose To Run For President In Nineteen Twenty-Eight" a year before the election

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LkDLp TIL Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomist who discovered Pluto, had his ashes placed on the New Horizons spacecraft, which flew to Pluto in 2006.
9jJQ TIL that in 1993, some FBI agents tried to order pizza from a recently raided psychiatric hospital, only to be rejected over the phone by an incredulous pizza delivery man.
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