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TIL Abraham Lincoln caught Smallpox shortly after the Gettysburg Address and required to be quarantined afterwards.

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oRZ4A TIL in the 90's hit song Return To Innocence, the ethnic chant wasn't Native American, but rather it was from the Amis people of Taiwan. Also, the sample was used without permission or credit.
4k9rR Today I learned crazy vocabulary from this young kid
8eaYa TIL that Goodyear created colored, light-up tires in the 1960s. However, it never made it into mass-production, one reason being that other drivers drove too dangerously whilst trying to look at the tires.
wodLY TIL of Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin, who in 1718 fought a duel with another woman over a Duke they were both in love with.
J1VYk TIL that during WWII, the town of Swastika, Ontario (founded in 1908) was renamed "Winston" by the provincial government. The residents removed the "Winston" sign and replaced it with a "Swastika" sign with the message, "To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first."