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TIL upon being told that his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, had called him a "Damned Fool", Lincoln responded "Then I dare say, I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always speaks his mind."

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P1kOe TIL the first Ciabatta bread was made in 1982
VM0d0 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth's crust in the 1970's. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
QNkvL TIL there is a French hydrogen fuel auto startup called Hopium, an internet meme portmanteau for something designed to give people hope in a hopeless situation
KYM1E TIL during a test of the accuracy of dog DNA tests, a man submitted his own human DNA, and got results back with dog breeds they suspected the DNA being from
GYlKJ TIL That during WW2 the Japanese built a deathray inspired by ideas from Nikola Tesla, the problem was that enemies would have to stand perfectly still for 10 minutes before it would work.