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TIL Joseph Stalin and Frank Lloyd Wright shared a son-in-law.

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o9jL TIL: One out of every four animals on Earth is a beetle
L7jd TIL President Harding died as one of the most popular presidents. Subsequent revelations caused him to be judged as one of the worst
8agBZ TIL The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90–363, 82 Stat. 250) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays (including Memorial Day, formerly May 30th). Signed: 6/28/1968; Effective: 1/1/1971
9BRp TIL that in 1912 the Australian national rugby team played 16 games in the US and Canada. It played poorly because players stayed in college frat houses and partied too much; one member said “We were never in bed. That was the trouble. I’ve never had such a time in my life”.
woXJ6 TIL that Three Mile Island Unit 2 initially came online on March 28th, 1978 (the same day as the accident in the following year), but one of it's coolant pumps failed, so the operators postponed its commission until December 30th.