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TIL Lincoln grew his beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter - “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”

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wWMP TIL Elvis Presley once flew from Graceland to Denver and back in one night just for a sandwich. ‘The Fool’s Gold Loaf’ is a hollowed out loaf of bread filled with peanut butter, jelly, and a pound of bacon. It has an estimated 8,000 calories
W75OY TIL in 1903, Serbia’s unpopular King Alexander and Queen Draga Mašin were brutally assassinated in their bedroom. The autocratic king had suspended the constitution multiple times, and the couple was loathed by the public and military. Their bodies were tossed from a balcony in piles of manure.
6EQ6Y TIL that exclusive sale rights of colchicine, a 2000-year-old treatment for gout, was given to a pharmaceutical company in 2009. They raised the price 50x, costing the government over $50 million/year.
KYryJ TIL that Magnús Scheving (Spartacus, LazyTown) made a bet with a friend to master a sport chosen by the other within three years. He was assigned aerobics, while his friend was assigned snooker. Eventually, he became a national champion in aerobics; his friend became a national champion in snooker.
pYdyG TIL that when Wyoming was going through the process of becoming a US state in 1890, the state demanded that women be given the right to vote. The US Congress denied this request. The state replied by saying that they'd "remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women"