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TIL of Lincoln's 4 children, only one outlived them

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DYRV TIL Michael Palin once accidentally took his wife’s passport when he went to France, but the Immigration officer let him in as he assumed it perfectly normal that Michael Palin would be dressed as a woman.
W51B TIL of Peter Skyllberg who was trapped for two months in his car after it became bogged down in snow drifts near the town of Umea in Sweden. He survived on just snow and snacks and went into a state of hibernation. This slowed his metabolism and left him emaciated, barely able to speak or move.
DYKv TIL a ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time. It is the time it takes for light to travel one cm in a vacuum.
wox46 TIL that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only US President to be successfully elected more than two times leading to the ratification of the 22nd amendment in response to his death.
yMxV TIL The inventor of auto-tune forgot to patent his idea in germany. Emagic created a similar program. Then Apple bought [Emagic], and integrated it into their Logic Pro software. his company’s reaction: “We can’t sue them, it would put us out of business. They’re too big to sue.”