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TIL Herbert Hoover was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River.

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v9ER TIL Garth Williams, illustrator of Stuart Little, wrote a kids book in 1958 called “The Rabbits’ Wedding”. An Alabama State Senator claimed the book was “propaganda for integration and intermarriage,” as the book featured a bunny with white fur and another with black.
R5vr4 TIL The Battle of the Somme was humouristically called the "Great Fuck Up" by soldiers of WW1
awwDy TIL indigenous Australian suicide has increased from 5% of total Australian suicide in 1991, to 50% in 2010, despite making up only 3% of the total Australian population.
njmW TIL that in January 1992 28.000 bath toys fell off a cargo ship. Some of them are still out there.
0mk1 TIL there is a statue of a man killing a seal with a bible in front of the University of Iceland main building.