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TIL that when surrendering during the American Civil war Robert E Lee dressed in an immaculate custom made uniform while Ulysses S Grant was dressed in a mud splattered general issue uniform.

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kJbZd TIL that Primus played their song "My Name Is Mud" at the notoriously-rainy Woodstock '94 music festival. The crowd then threw mud on stage. Les Claypool, the singer and bassist, stopped the song and said that throwing mud was a sign of "insignificant genitalia." The mud-throwing immediately ceased.
651X TIL that human foot is home to more than 200 different types of fungi
N78GM TIL Hawaii is the birthplace of the Modern Chinese Revolution because Sun Yat-sen established the Revived China Society to overthrow the Qing Dynasty there. His brother Sun Mei was one of the wealthiest Chinese in Hawaii and sold all of his properties and businesses to support the Revolution
Oo907 TIL authors C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on November 22nd, 1963. Their deaths weren't as prominent in the news because of a more noteworthy death that occurred on that day: the assassination of John F. Kennedy
BgpRy TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented as a Whiskey mixer