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QJr1k TIL The Graduation Rate of College Students with ADHD is only 5%
YeXP TIL In 2011, a man shot a high powered rifle at the White House, hitting it at least 7 times. It took Secret Service 4 days to realize this, and they did so only after a housekeeper noticed broken glass and cement on the floor.
Oo1Xa TIL that George B. McClellan, the mayor of New York in 1904, was to symbolically start the first train at City Hall station and the hand it over to an engineer. However, he enjoyed himself so much that he refused to stop controlling the train until he reached 103rd street.
pkkQ TIL that despite a universal dislike for it, the font Comic Sans has become highly regarded by those who work with dyslexic children - one of the better uses for which it was never intended.
4XgAo TIL John Quincy Adams would go skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning. Anne Royall, the first female journalist to ever score an interview with a president, discovered Adams skinny dipping one morning and hid his clothing until he agreed to talk to her.