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TIL Teddy Roosevelt was the only US President confirmed to have had a tattoo

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awpXo TIL that the question of if a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable made it to the Supreme Court in the case Nix v. Hedden (1893). They decided that, for tariff purposes, it is a vegetable.
d8o58 TIL: Dogs sniff other dogs butts to pick up about another dogs gender, reproductive status, diet, health status, temperament, and much more
brX0 TIL that Olympic skeet shooting was open to both sexes … until a woman won gold in 1992.
0dXWL TIL of the United Kingdom's Locomotives Act 1865, which mandated that motor vehicles abide by a 2 to 4 mph speed limit, be crewed by minimum of three persons, and have man walk at least 55 meters ahead of the vehicle, waving a red flag and sounding a horn.
4m9X TIL: In Osama Bin-Laden’s 2002 letter to America, the first reason he states he attacked us, is our actions in Israel and Palestine.