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TIL Gerald Ford was the first person to be both vice president and president without being elected by the people. He was appointed vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned and he succeeded to the presidency when Nixon resigned.

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GYrJ1 TIL Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more Elephants will be without tusks because we killed most elephants with big tusks and removed them from gene pool.
GYmo5 TIL that the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson US supreme court decision, which upheld that segregation was constitution, has never been explicitly overruled. Technically, with the exception of education, segregation is still constitutional in the USA.
MZ70 TIL that Dinosaurs lived on Earth for 150 million years. We’ve been around for just 0.1% of that time.
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LRx9 TIL that On October 23, 1999, BASE jumper and stuntwoman Jan Davis died while making an illegal protest jump from El Capitan intended to demonstrate the safety of BASE jumping at Yosemite National Park, after a ban on BASE jumping in the area regarding safety.