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TIL that Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign web site is still online.
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TIL that Eisenhower called President Kennedy's race to the moon "nuts" in 1963. A New York Times editorial stated that the total cost for a moon landing could build "a Harvard University for every state"
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TIL that human genetic diversity is one of the lowest among primates.
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TIL that the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge has a program that sends a crew member to drive people across if they're too afraid to drive themselves. It gets between 1,200 to 1,400 calls every year
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TIL in 2016, a 17-year-old girl in Denmark successfully stopped an assault by using pepper spray. The man was never caught, but she was charged for the illegal possession of pepper spray.
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TIL Meredith Gardner, a codebreaker was able to work out that more than 200 American citizens were Soviet agents between 1930 and 1945. One of the spies was William Weisband, who was one of Gardner colleagues on the project, and had told the Soviets as soon as the code was broken.