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TIL In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter debated, marking the first time in US history that a president had agreed to debate and only the second time that any televised debates had been held. The sound system failed, leaving Ford and Carter standing in silence for nearly half an hour

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X05lR TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1928. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married to two different women in different states unbeknownst to each other.
6xY TIL the official name of the # symbol is “octothorpe”
PKKG TIL that Grover Cleveland allegedly date-raped a woman, got her pregnant, forced her to put the child in an orphanage, and committed her to an insane asylum.
yQb5l TIL the latitude/longitude coordinates of 0°N 0°E point to a buoy off the coast of Africa jokingly called "Null Island"
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