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TIL Abraham Lincoln was a dual citizen of the United States and the tiny country of San Marino. He accepted honorary Sammarinese citizenship after recognizing them as a nation, saying “Although your dominion is small, your State is nevertheless one of the most honored, in all history."

Z8N0o TIL it took 762 pages to completely prove 1+1=2 in Principia Mathematica, written by Albert Whitehead and Betrand Russell. The very next line after they finish is “The above proposition is occasionally useful.”
5YR7n TIL Russia built a city in China as the terminus for the Trans-Siberian railway. Its Chinese name, Dalian, comes from the Russian word for "far away".
vPNLj TIL Jagadeesh Pillai took over four years to record, edit and mix the longest officially released song, lasting 138 hr 41 min 20 sec. Pillai sung the entire book of the poetic work “Shri Ram Charit Manas”
rajd TIL Dr. John Osborne, the first democratic governor of Wyoming, wore shoes he made of human skin to his inauguration. He removed the skin from the body of an executed train robber. He also made a doctor’s bag and coin purse. He gave the top of the skull to his 15 year old assistant as a souvenir.
R7Dja TIL that there is a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Introduced in 2010, the "SarcMark" looks like a reversed 6 with a dot in the middle. It is used just like the question mark or exclamation mark, except this mark indicates irony or sarcasm. However, anyone hoping to use it must pay $1.99 (£1.20).