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TIL about the Mugwumps, who were Republican political activists who voted Democrat in 1884 to protest GOP financial corruption...

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d8wjr TIL Robin Hood is often depicted as wearing “Lincoln Green”, colored clothes. These were dyed from the important clothing town Lincoln, in England and would date his tales to the early or mid 16th century.
pYxKb TIL That The Top 50 Oldest Living People Are All Females. The oldest known living person is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, aged 116 years, 186 days.
p84pp TIL Sandy Hook perpetrator Adam Lanza was visited by the FBI when he was 12 for hacking through 2 levels of government security. They said if he was really that good he could work for them someday.
neZG TIL the original idea for the episode, Jurassic Bark, was to have Fry’s mother fossilized instead of Seymour, but the idea was deemed to be “too upsetting to the audience”.
bNN4 TIL that Elizabeth Taylor had a genetic mutation of the FOXC2 gene, which gave her an extra row of eyelashes.