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TIL as President McKinley was dying, no one knew where Vice President Teddy Roosevelt was. When located in the wilderness he raced all night down mountain roads on a buckboard wagon in pitch black and pouring rains to be sworn in.

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0wN9N TIL There is an artificial hill in Italy, over 100 feet tall, made entirely of empty olive oil pots, carefully placed over a period of 250 years by ancient Romans.
BrNJW TIL a research study led by University of Oxford found out that atheists and highly religious people are the ones least scared of death.
Q75M TIL Big steel vessels have a magnetic signature, due to the polarity of electrons lining up to the earths magnetic field when the steel was heated in manufacture through welding etc, and can be used to locate where the vessel was made.
MerA0 TIL - From 1900s - 1970s, the gay community of England sometimes communicated through a language called Polari, to protect themselves in a land in which homosexuality was illegal.
9BLB TIL Brainstorming has been shown to produce fewer and lower quality ideas than when people work alone.