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TIL Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan’s daughter have all claimed to have seen Abraham Lincoln’s ghost in the White House.

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ddO9 TIL that Freddie Mercury had a throat infection at the time of Live Aid and was advised by his doctors to not risk performing at the festival. He defied their orders, and Queen’s set went down in history as one of the best performances that day.
ADjLl TIL of a con man in the early 1900s who made successful attempts to sell the Brooklyn Bridge (which he did not own).
QVKa TIL that artist Piero Manzoni created Artists’ Shit, 90 tin cans containing 30 grams of feces, as a mockery to the art world, then sold them for $37 dollars each. They’re now worth upwards of $100000 each.
QkOE TIL that “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” is called the “Matthew Effect”
RyQa TIL that Scientists have asserted that every type of smell/aroma in the world can be broken down into differing combinations of 10 primary smells. They are fragrant, woody/resinous, non-citrus fruity, sharp/pungent, chemical, minty/peppermint, sweet, popcorn, sickening, and lemon.