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TIL When Teddy Roosevelt was president, you could just draw big teeth and circular glasses on an envelope and the letter would end up at the White House (Conan’s new interview show…awesome)

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GYPKE TIL Auto-Lite Strike, a five-day running battle between nearly 10,000 strikers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard. Known as the "Battle of Toledo," the clash left two strikers dead and more than 200 injured.
8QgX TIL In 1968 a student at Oregon University turned up to every class in a black bag and sat at the back of the room in silence. At first the student was treated with hostility, then curiosity before finally friendship. This is known as the mere-exposure effect.
p8Bk4 TIL that at the onset of the Korean War, the US Army was so unprepared it had to salvage tanks from WWII battlefields and even from display pedestals in Fort Knox to equip its forces.
MB00 TIL of “Unsinkable” Sam, a sailor during WWII who survived the sinking of the Bismarck, switched sides to the Allies, then survived the sinking of both the HMS Cossack and the HMS Ark Royal. Unsinkable Sam is also a cat.
nWYW TIL the Moon is about 400 times smaller than the Sun, but it also just happens to be about 400 times closer. The result is that from Earth, they appear to be the same size.