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TIL in 1795 a treaty with Britain was so unpopular that graffiti was scrawled on the governor of NY's house that said "Damn John Jay! Damn everyone who won't damn John Jay! Damn everyone that won't put lights in his windows and sit up all night damning John Jay!"

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5ZG9 TIL Orville Wright lived until 1948, and his last flight was in a Lockheed Constellation. He witnessed the creation of the first rocket and jet propulsion.
lolXN TIL that there are currently more identified arachnid species than there are of all vertebrae combined
R7Ye1 TIL of the 10,000 year clock. Currently being constructed in Texas.
GgVQ TIL the 2012 Olympics was the first time that every country sent a woman to compete.
jdmE TIL there is a species of fungus that only exists in Texas and rural Japan, and is thought to have been in both places for 19 million years