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TIL more people are bitten by New Yorkers each year than sharks.

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PmXg TIL President Buchanan was the only US President with military service who did not serve as an officer.
6RAl TIL that Hitler was not a German Citizen until age 32
vPZK7 TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.
AD467 TIL Einstein didn’t fail math as a child. By the age of 15, he had mastered differential and integral calculus.
Y7BmW TIL that Henry Ford was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan in 1918. Despite being at the height of his popularity, he lost. (He also ran in the Republican primary that year and lost that too.)