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TIL when President Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico citing that it had "shed American blood upon the American soil", then-Representative Abraham Lincoln protested with resolutions demanding to know the "particular spot of soil on which the blood of our citizens was so shed."

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1vXX TIL The United States consumes 99% of the world’s hydrocodone, as it has been banned elsewhere
eRd6 TIL the Vatican’s archive is a whooping 40 million pages and digitizing it will take an estimated 9 years and 2.8 petabytes
J1v1l TIL that one third of Gen-z in the US identities as non-religious or spiritual but non-affiliated. The highest of any generation.
EgJ7 TIL that the composer of some of the most beautiful Renaissance madrigals was a mass murderer
neV0G TIL that during the height of the Cold War, President Kennedy proposed the idea that the USA and USSR should work together to land a man on the moon. This was in order to minimise costs and to avoid doubling up on R&D.