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TIL Karl Marx sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln congratulating him on his fight against slavery and 1864 re-election.

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x67N1 TIL about the kingdom of Albania, a state located in the Caucasus in ancient times
wLWN7 TIL that on 18th April 1930, BBC announced that there was no news and played piano music on the radio instead.
b6R89 TIL that blueberries (and cranberries) are true berries, produced from a single ovary with non permeable skin. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, on the other hand, whose tissue holds hundreds of ovaries with permeable surfaces, are made up of smaller fruits.
5VLoQ TIL that "Disaster Girl" Zoe Roth, who was 4 in the meme photo, sold an NFT of the pic in 2021 for a little under a half million dollars. She used the $ to pay off student loans after earning a BA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
vjwx TIL that in 1972, NASA had a highly successful rocket that qualified for a manned Mars mission. It was canceled.