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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once held the World Record for most hands shaken in one day, with 8510 at a White House Reception.

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M6bb TIL the U.S. government spent years holding fake arrival ceremonies honoring the return of American soldiers killed in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea to American soil, but the planes were actually empty. The ceremonies were known by staff as “The Big Lie.”
MedGm TIL of Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley on Sep. 6, 1901. He was executed seven weeks later by Edwin Davis, the first “state electrician” of New York.
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YLwW TIL that the Space Jam website is still active, and hasn’t been touched since ‘96!
aG69 TIL that trickle-down economics used to be known as the “horse and sparrow” theory based on the idea that if you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through his bowels undigested for the sparrows to eat.