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TIL: Upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it."

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MjlB TIL: The US Airways employee who gave the ticket to 9/11 terrorist Mohammed Atta said he thought Atta looked like a terrorist but told himself he was just being racist. When the planes later hit the WTC his first reaction was “I was right, this guy was a terrorist”.
XEejj TIL former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones visited a children’s hospital where he challenged a sick kid to a game of Madden. Jones proceeded to beat him by a score of 98-35.
J1jQ TIL, Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi, coming soon to a theatre near you) has sent a book to the Prime Minister of Canada every Monday for the past 4 years, in hopes of enlightening Stephen Harper to be less of an asshole.
0jOL TIL the “Duds” in the name of the candy Milk Duds is because the original goal was to have perfectly round pieces of candy, but the machines the company had at the time couldn’t quite do it.
7rPBp TIL that scientists once gave drugs to bees, and found that they respond similarly to humans: bees on cocaine tend to overestimate the amount of sugar they find and exaggerate when reporting back to the hive.