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p8WXN TIL That Ulysses S. Grant's middle initial stood for nothing. It was a typo on a application to West Point.
4bKb TIL that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2014 decision that police officers may conduct traffic stops even if they have not personally observed a traffic violation.
69LPZ TIL after a boy in the 1930s found what looked like a "great lump of coal", his family used it as a doorstop for a decade until his dad had "a little look at it." This led to the realization it was the world's largest black sapphire. After being faceted, the Black Star of Queensland is 733 carats.
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