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TIL DC police officer William West warned Ulysses S Grant, the sitting President of the United States at the time, about recklessly driving his horse-drawn carriage. The next day West saw Grant driving in the same manner and placed the POTUS under arrest. (Washington Post, NOV 7 1925)

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0wYOA TIL in 1985, while conducting Concorde's trial test flights, BA offered NATO to exercise on intercepting a fly-high supersonic bomber. all modern fighters, including F14, F15 and F16, failed to reach their target, except the 1950's EE Lightning, who intercepted the Concorde with ease.
Eg9kx TIL of the Jefferson Bible, a de-miracalised version of the gospels created by Thomas Jefferson — that just had the morals and life of Jesus Christ. A copy was presented to new members of Congress from 1904 until the 1950s.
4BmR TIL The first man to survive going down Niagara Falls died by slipping on an orange peel
Zp75B TIL English used to be a grammatically gendered language with nouns being treated as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
V8Kk TIL that unfrosted Pop-tarts have more calories than frosted Pop-tarts