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TIL The first female journalist to interview a U.S. President did so by sitting on John Q. Adams’ clothes while he swam nude in the Potomac forcing him to do the interview.

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j6Lxp TIL there was a proposed US annexation of the Dominican Republic under President Grant. The bill failed in the Senate because of Liberal Republican opposition, and directly contributed to the Liberal Republicans running Horace Greeley to oppose Grant in the 1872 election.
KYvDw TIL about the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral, where Ilario "Mario" Fabbrini ceremonially disposed of 29,188 frozen cheese-and-mushroom pizzas. He had been ordered to recall the pizzas by the FDA after tests suggested the presence of botulism in some canned mushrooms he used on the pizzas.
JKEl TIL the Italian alphabet only has 21 letters. If the letters j, k, w, x or y appear in a word, it is because the word has been borrowed from a different language.
wXQ7 TIL a Google search for Festivus displays an aluminum pole next to the results list
XE60r TIL Australia had chariot races in the 1930s but instead of horses, they used motorcycles