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TIL that the trail of Lewis and Clark can be partially tracked through the mercury left from their excrement

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8ya8 TIL that John Adams, the first vice president of the United States of America described vice presidency as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”
GYWBE TIL that back in May 2016, in order to show the absurdities of software EULAs, the Norwegian Consumer Council did a live, word-by-word, non-stop reading of all of Apples and 3rd party EULAs on an "average" iPhone. It took them over 32 hours.
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