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TIL that Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act when it was introduced in 2001

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1k9P TIL that Teddy Roosevelt volunteered for service in World War I ten years after having served as U.S. president.
oBMD7 TIL the phrase "What would Jesus do?" came out of Christian Socialism, and the belief that the moral teachings of Jesus were thoroughly incompatible with capitalism
e1xJ TIL Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss, is an allegory for post-WWII US occupation of Japan. Seuss, who was vehemently anti-Japanese during the conflict, had a drastic change of heart after visiting postwar Japan. He dedicated the book to a Japanese friend.
vR7D TIL that even though Detroit is just across the river from it, Windsor, Ontario has one of the lowest murder rates in all of Canada.
awX5y TIL: During a disaster, the least wounded patients will make it to the hospital the first, creating what is called "the reverse triage effect" where hospitals will be full of the least critical patients. To counter this hospitals may simply send severe but non-critical patients home.