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TIL Kids Not Only Have the Constitutional Right to Not Participate in the Pledge of Allegiance, But Remain Seated

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8KjZ TIL North Korea has officially stated that Kim Jong Un mastered driving at the age of 3
PYewJ TIL Lincoln originally invited Ulysses S. Grant and his wife to the Ford Theater. Grant accepted, but later backed out because their wives' hated each other. If Grant had gone, his security detail would likely have prevented Lincoln's assassination.
P1QGg TIL about Hanno II the Great, a Carthaginian aristocrat from the 3rd century BCE, who twice sabotaged Carthage's war effort against the Romans in the 1st Punic War, and the 2nd Punic War, simply because he wasn't personally gaining anything from either war.
b9V9p TIL how cranes are built. For years I've wondered how these cranes are placed in a building, near to where I lived, or just there in the first place. Then this video popped up and answered all my questions.
j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.