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TIL that Dwight Eisenhower took up painting during the last twenty years of his life and did about 260 paintings including a portrait of Abraham Lincoln

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eNKD TIL in 2006, a Walmart in Canada, following a bomb threat, forced it’s employees to help police search the store for the bomb.
45Yo TIL of a prisoner, who after getting his sentence reduced from electrocution by the chair, shocked and killed himself with a TV while on his toilet.
RZ9l TIL After Hurricane Sandy, American Red Cross responded to NY Attorney General’s public request for information by hiring lawyers and arguing that some information about the response was a “trade secret” and “competitive harm” from competitors mimicking their model
AaYa TIL that thisiswhyimbroke.com has a sister componay called shityoucanafford.com
nWonW TIL In 2019, Jessica Nabongo became the first Black woman to visit all 195 countries of the world. In 2017 she was determined to do it by her 35th birthday and it took more than 170 flights in a year, over a million air miles to achieve