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TIL that the Every Vote Counts Amendment is a proposed Amendment that abolishes the electoral college for presidential elections

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e0adn TIL that Willie Nelson is the only person to out-smoke Snoop Dogg.
EwgW TIL President Richard Nixon ordered a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea while drunk, but Kissinger told the Joint Chiefs to ignore the order until Nixon sobered up.
YW5P TIL that Hanukah is celebrated by eating fried foods (such as latkes (potato pancakes), jelly doughnuts sufganiyot and Sephardic Bimuelos) to commemorate the importance of oil.
wPa8 TIL A goat in Utah was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk proteins in her milk which is used to make “bio-steel”, a material which is stronger than Kevlar.
awlnA TIL of John Mosbys Sack, a lost treasure buried in rural Virgina. In 1863 Confederate Colonel Mosby and his men snuck into the Fairfax VA county courthouse and got away with $350,000 in gold silver jewelry and heirlooms. He buried the sack between 2 large trees after the raid where it remains hidden