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TIL: Presidents elected in years divisible by 20 have died in office or faced an assassination attempt

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KO6bJ TIL that there are four stages to learning a new skill: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence.
ANZxa TIL - 9/11 led NATO to invoke Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the very first time in its history.
ep7Wg TIL the Love Shack made famous by the B-52’s in their 1989 hit song was real, its tin roof was actually rusted, but it unfortunately burned down in 2004.
N7d0J TIL that the physician who tended to President Garfield after he was shot was Doctor Willard Bliss. His first name was Doctor.
40Qw TIL we say “pardon my French” after swearing because in the 19th century, English-speaking people would drop French phrases into conversation to display class, apologizing because many of their listeners wouldn’t know the language. Then people hid swear words under the pretense of them being French.