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aE5Z TIL the first space shuttle Enterprise was originally due to named Constitution. After a letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans, President Ford said he was “partial to the name” and told NASA to change it
v18jx TIL of Congressman Lucas Miller who proposed an amendment renaming the United States of America to the United States of the Earth in 1893. He also proposed abolishing the Army and Navy.
VoPk TIL that in 1861 Francis Key Howard wrote an editorial about President Lincoln’s suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. He was subsequently imprisoned and held without trial for two years at Fort McHenry, where his grandfather Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812
AKOx TIL that in 1916, Nikola Tesla invented a unidirectional flow valve with no moving parts, by making the flowing substance resist its own movement.
l7M7G TIL Ulysses S. Grant presidency's historical assessment and reputation suffered considerably due to the "Lost Cause" myth spread by Confederate sympathizers around the turn of the 20th century, before starting to recover in the 21st century.