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TIL The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted by Executive Order.

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9YOgQ TIL It's impossible to sneeze while you're dreaming.
1j97 TIL that “Elephants are capable swimmers. They have been recorded swimming for up to six hours without touching the bottom, and have travelled as far as 48 km (30 mi) at a stretch and at speeds of up to 2.1 km/h (1 mph).”
VkRZ TIL Poor women who drank tea were viewed as irresponsible as whisky drinkers in early 19th-century Ireland
yQGLX TIL that Quentin Tarantino used to work as an usher at a movie theater, meaning he got to watch movies for free--but it was a porn theater, and porn movies bored him.
XE1JP TIL in 2011 Nicolas Cage woke up in his Orange County house in the middle of the night to find a naked man, wearing Cage’s leather jacket, and eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed. The man was arrested by police, but Cage didn’t press charges.