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TIL one of the Congressional originators of the House Committee on Un-American Activities was a Soviet spy

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OG9BR TIL that Abraham Lincoln was so convinced that he was going to lose the election of 1864 that he asked Frederick Douglass to lead scouts into the South to free as many slaves as possible before the new president took office.
Pl0e TIL: In the 1950’s you could walk into a pet store, buy a monkey, kill it, shave it, dupe the media into believing it was an alien and only get fined $10.00.
ANO6l TIL that the film, "First Blood" - set in the fictional town of Hope, Washington - was filmed in Hope, British Columbia where they recently erected a statue of John Rambo
joOM TIL A woman who legally added ‘Skywalker’ as a middle name had her passport rejected because of trademark infringement
ANBRa TIL villagers on a South Korean island celebrated the birthday of an 800-year-old ginkgo tree that has a 'wife' in North Korea