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TIL that both Republicans and Democrats nominated Horace Greeley in 1872 and he still lost the election in a landslide.

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W7489 TIL that Lebron James first met his longtime agent Rich Paul at an airport where James was impressed by Paul's authentic Warren Moon throwback jersey. They exchanged contact information, and soon Paul had sold James a Magic Johnson Lakers jersey and a Joe Namath Rams jersey.
ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
R0Q4 TIL in Ashgabat (capital of Turkmenistan), water, gas and electricity are free
Dn6P TIL More than 20M people are living in slavery today, more than at any time in history and Walk Free is an organization aiming to help end it this generation by conducting researches and creating awareness with social media.
P105O TIL that clown college was actually real and in some years they had a lower acceptance rate than Harvard.