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TIL The Draft Eisenhower movement was the only successful political draft of the 20th century to take a private citizen to the Oval Office. It was a widespread American grassroots political movement that eventually persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President.

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OGaW1 TIL in a 1931 essay about on the future of science, Winston Churchill advocated for lab grown meat, predicted long distance communication through an internet-like system, and theorised that we'd be able to artificially cultivate humans based on our needs, but the moral debate would prevent this
ZmMY TIL that a 1920s anti-catholic mob, led by the Klan, became convinced the pope was on a train in Indiana. A corset salesman spent half an hour convincing the mob he wasn’t the pope in disguise.
Memm TIL There is a place in Minnesota where you can drive a tank and smash cars with it.
KOPLa TIL Michael Jackson is estimated to have donated over half a billion dollars over his lifetime, setting a record for any pop star.
GAgLN TIL New York-Presbyterian Hospital Created and maintains a Life-Saving CPR Spotify Playlist. Each track consists of the “right beat” to time CPR compressions, so that 100 chest compressions are done per min.