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TIL that after 37 years of work and 1,4 billion billion crayons, Emerson Moser, Crayola's senior crayon maker revealed at his retirement party that he was actually colorblind.

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JYZxV TIL that not only did Robert Todd Lincoln watch his father die, but he also saw the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley. When Roosevelt took office, Lincoln wrote “I do not congratulate you, for I have seen too much of the seamy side of the Presidential Robe to think it an enviable garment".
NXw6M TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly gets arrested for standing on one road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to paramedics, police, the court, or his own lawyer. Ongoing for more than a decade. Everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent.
K1XR TIL that there is a kind of tumor that can develop tissues and functional organs, like eyes, torso, hands, teeth and feet.
KOANJ TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers' Party, a satirical political party, won 16 seats in Poland's lower house in the 1991 election. The party soon split into Large Beer and Small Beer factions, despite their founder's claims that "beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty". The party eventually dissolved.
M7xv0 TIL Thomas Jefferson paid journalists to report that John Adams was a hermaphrodite as part of a smear campaign