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TIL Cracker Barrel got in trouble for segregation…in 2004

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kO7ME TIL one horse’s power is greater than one horsepower
LQxAP TIL the bodyguard assigned to protect Abraham Lincoln left at intermission, got drunk at a saloon and fell asleep. He was fired three years later for falling asleep again on duty.
jwLR TIL there’s a series of large concrete arrows pointing the way across the US, once used to guide airmail planes
rROMW TIL When a wallet or purse says "genuine leather" it's not telling you its really made of leather, but what grade the leather is. It is acually the 2nd worst kind of leather.
lojo7 TIL That only 14 years after almost the entire Choctaw population was forcibly relocated in the Trail of Tears, the tribe donated $170 (over $5,000 today) to victims of the Potato Famine in Ireland, creating a bond between the two peoples that lasts to today.