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TIL there is a Russian-like language called “Fenya” spoken only by thieves

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Y7v5W TIL Ulysses S. Grant, who was running for a third term in 1880, led on 35 ballots for the nomination. It wasn't until James G. Blaine and John Sherman shifted their supporters toward James A. Garfield that Grant subsequently lost on the 36th ballot.
neoad TIL bicycle stability is actually a quite difficult mathematical problem and was fully explained no sooner than 2007
69RaZ TIL only 31 cities in Australia have a population of over 50,000. In the US, 50,000 is about the size of Enid, Oklahoma or Galveston, Texas.
9bxQ TIL Many individual states have laws recognizing American Sign Language as a “foreign language”. A number of U.S. universities even accept ASL credit to fulfill foreign language requirements
wo6X6 TIL about Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ as a response to the murder of two officers, deploying over 800 soldiers and air support without any shots fired. The operation left a 19-foot stump as a reminder of the incident.