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TIL: In 1832, Andrew Jackson defeated himself in Georgia as there were 2 Andrew Jackson tickets representing 2 different parties. Both parties wanted him as President, but disagreed on the running mate. So Andrew Jackson came in 1st and 2nd in Georgia.

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N7vyJ TIL The First sporting event ever filmed was in 1894 James "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed.
RZE6 TIL of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who, during a 6 hour spacewalk on the ISS, nearly became the first man to drown in space when his helmet began to inexplicably fill with water.
9rap TIL: headlines that end with a question mark can be answered no: Betteridge’s Law. Any headline with a question mark is usually a BS story.
4X9w5 People like to imagine that they’re the pinnacle of evolution, but the animal kingdom suggests otherwise. The discovery that bumblebees use hair on their legs to detect a flower’s electromagnetic field offers another reminder that human senses don’t always measure up. You share the planet with creatures that can smell veins, see colors you can’t imagine, and communicate through their feet. Here are just a few animals with senses sharper than yours.
GVj7 TIL that General Eisenhower ordered every citizen Gotha, Germany to tour the concentration camp Ohrdruf. After the mayor of the town and his wife did so, they went home and hanged themselves (#80)