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TIL President Grover Cleveland avoided the draft by paying a Polish immigrant to fight in his place during the Civil War.

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v0WK TIL that the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical, federally registered political party in Canada, received 1.01% of the popular vote in the 1980 federal election campaigning to repeal the law of gravity and provide higher education by building taller schools, among other promises.
J1LLB TIL a scene from The Color of Money, a movie that follows a trio as they hustle at pool halls while making their way to a nine-ball tournament in Atlantic City, and sequel to the 1961 film The Hustler, inspired the name for Doom, a popular first person shooter created by id Software in 1993.
Lk1X9 The winds at Jupiter’s surface, some of the most powerful in the solar system, influence the planet’s gravitational field, the latest observations show. This means that Jupiter’s signature, crisscrossing bands don’t just exist on the surface of the atmosphere. Jupiter’s wind flows actually extend 3,000 kilometres (about 1,860 miles) below the cloud tops, where the pressure is about 100,000 times that of the atmosphere at Earth’s surface.
gMOv7 TIL Ashton Kutcher ended up in the hospital with pancreatic issues after following Steve Jobs' fruitarian diet in preparation for the movie Jobs. Steve Jobs died of Pancreatic cancer.
0w5dv TIL in 1898 during the Spanish-American war, Nikola Tesla once invented a remote controlled boat he thought could end warfare.