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TIL Washington set the two-term President tradition. He declined a 3rd term because "The line between Parties” had become “so clearly drawn” that politicians “regard neither truth nor decency; attacking every character without respect to persons who happen to differ from themselves in Politics."

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1aAOO TIL priest Joseph Müller told a joke of a dying German soldier who asked to see people for whom he was laying down his life. The nurse laid a portrait of Hitler and Göring next to him. The soldier said "Now I can die like Jesus Christ" [between two criminals]. Müller was executed for the joke.
78ONM TIL the Chevy Suburban has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
8pYX TIL that an enormous insect, so large that it was known as a “tree lobster,” was thought extinct but has recently been discovered on a tiny island
ejy5 TIL that allowing food time to stand after Microwave cooking isnt just a suggestion but required after 18 people contracted Salmonella enterica in the US by skipping this step
QrDM TIL that Mr. Rogers testified in the landmark case for people’s right to record TV programs, saying that people should be able to decide when they watch TV: “I am opposed to people being programmed by others”