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TIL there is a website that helps you determine which candidate’s views are closest to your own.

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WvAN TIL that Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, two wealthy extremely entrepreneurs, sent each other gag Christmas gifts. Rockefeller sent Carnegie a cardboard vest to make fun of his poor childhood. In return Carnegie sent a fine whiskey to Rockefeller, a devout baptist who had given up drinking.
negmW TIL the actor who played Pugsley in the 1990s Addams Family movies is the brother of Modern Family's Ariel Winter.
kJpP5 TIL Operation Fantasia. Because a fox-shaped spirit is an omen of doom in Japanese folklore, the U.S. developed a psychological warfare campaign during WWII that included a plan to release foxes sprayed with glow-in-the-dark paint in Japan. It was never executed.
ADAZx TIL that 1/6th of the worlds population died in the An Lushan Rebellion between 755 to 763
mxXJo TIL until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only' flights featuring complimentary cigars, cocktails and a full-course steak dinner in the exclusive company of other men (besides the stewardesses, of course).