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TIL the first person diagnosed with autism is still alive and living in Mississippi.

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eJMD TIL that Samuel J. Tilden, the guy who lost the 1876 U.S. Presidential election by a razor-thin margin, bears the phrase “I Still Trust The People” on his gravestone.
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