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TIL that Copperheads sent mail containing venomous snakes to Washington D.C., when they declared for the Confederacy.

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9wDVM TIL the Millennium Falcon was built in Wales
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oReG8 TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843
b5e9 TIL that all U.S. Treasurers since 1949 have been women.