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TIL that William McKinley was the first president to ride in an electric car - the ambulance that took him to the hospital after he was shot by an assassin.

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j6xJX TIL Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna lost his left leg...twice
m15jy TIL Guinea Pig Club - a group of Allied airmen who bonded during their extended stays at a remarkable burn recovery hospital started during WWII in England
MeeMA TIL a lawyer in Toronto fell to his death after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was "unbreakable." The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame, and he fell to his death.
pB4A TIL the first Google server was housed in a cabinet made of Lego bricks
Y7e0W TIL that there is a medicine called Propranolol that was found in studies to reduce racial bias in those who take it.