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lDrG TIL Helen Keller was a socialist and one of the founders of the ACLU. After extensive travel, she said, “I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate…Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
7g6p TIL That Mel Brooks witnessed Sid Caesar knocking down a horse with one punch, and this event inspired the scene in ‘Blazing Saddles.’
NXyR6 TIL Abraham Lincoln was the only president who was also a licensed bartender.
XEo8P TIL that Nutraloaf is a food served in prisons in the United States and Canada to prisoners who have misbehaved. Due to its lack of flavor, it has been banned in several states where food cannot be used as punishment
1aBMD TIL in the 18th century, the wealthy would keep live "garden hermits" or, people that would dress as druids and live in handmade grottos among the properties. They would be used as entertainment, could not cut their hair or nails, and were often treated as sages.