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TIL Abraham Lincoln Signed the Legislation to Create the Secret Service the Day He Was Assassinated

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mxMNv TIL that beluga whales can mimic human speech, and have caused divers to inadvertently surface due to them mimicing commands to surface
GY9DQ TIL William Wrigley Jr. began by selling soap and offered baking powder as an incentive to buy it. Finding the baking powder more popular, he switched to selling it instead and gave his customers gum as incentive. Again, he found that the gum was more popular and began to sell it instead.
pYJDe TIL when married couple Caleb Roesler and Justine Roesler won the North American Wife Carrying Championship in 2023, they were awarded Justine's weight in beer and given $5 for every pound she weighed.
01Mp TIL that in 2001, Mark Rich received a presidential pardon after refusing to pay $48 million in taxes. He had made substantial donations to the president’s wife’s political campaign. President Carter called it the most disgraceful pardon in US history.
EPaw TIL on the night of Grigori Rasputin’s assassination, he was poisoned with enough cyanide to kill five men, shot four times, bound in a rug, and then tossed in a river. An autopsy showed that he died by drowning.