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TIL President James A. Garfield entertained friends by writing in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.

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XEgok TIL: In 1986, the night before the Challenger shuttle exploded, Allan McDonald, the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for the engineering contractor Morton Thiokol, refused to sign the launch recommendation over safety concerns.
xgR1 TIL of ‘Tent City’, an Arizona jail built out of old military tents, operational since 1993
M7b0W TIL that in 1863, when Harriet Tubman was under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, she became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States when she and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 slaves in the Combahee Ferry Raid in the Civil War.
5npP TIL prior to the 1970’s, South Africa sold a ‘jawbreaker’ like candy called “Niggerballs”.
P1E5n TIL tins of diet coke float in water while tins of regular coke sink.