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TIL of the the Compromise of 1877, an unwritten deal that settled the controversial and disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. The deal gave ® Rutherford B. Hayes the last 20 electoral votes to win the election as long as he removed federal troops from the South

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6RbJ TIL a man walked onto an unlocked National Guard armory, started a tank with push-button ignition (no key required), and drove it through a San Diego neighborhood for 25 minutes.
KErJ TIL that in 2011, a 14 year-old amateur astronomer from Canada proved that Jupiter is bright enough to cast shadows on Earth.
8WmZ TIL President John Quincy Adams owned an aligator which he kept in the White House
jNvyN TIL Guan Pinghu was a leading player of the guqin or Chinese zither. His recording of "Stream" was included in the Voyager Golden Record, containing music from around the world, which was sent into space by NASA. It is the longest excerpt included on the disc and the only excerpt of Chinese music
j64lE TIL about Alan Magee, an American airman during WWII. In 1943, he was on a bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France, when his plane broke apart in mid-air and his parachute was torn. Magee blacked out from lack of oxygen and survived a 22,000-foot fall by crashing through a train station's glass roof.