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TIL that Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the U.S., did not mention his wife of 12 years even once in his 800 page autobiography

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KYD69 TIL: Pigeon racing is not only a competitive sport for decades, but also experienced several doping scandals. The pigeons were given a drugs that relieved pain, reduced fever, or produce effects similar to human athletes and caffeine. The sport planned to add more anti doping rules in 2014.
nDKb TIL that handwriting analysis strongly suggests that Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death to become the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had a genteel manner, spoke several languages and claimed to have forgotten his past
6Epkm TIL that if Will Smith had accepted the role of Neo in the Matrix, then Morpheus probably would have been played by Val Kilmer
m1EO TIL there is a neurological condition that gives one “an uncontrollable tendency to pun.”
p66Q TIL that the US Vice President is the only officer in the Line of Succession that can ever succeed to the title of President; the remaining officers could only be Acting President