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TIL that Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican president on 6 November 1860 – winning entirely with Northern and Western votes. His name didn’t even appear on ballots in 10 Southern slave states, yet he still won a decisive Electoral College victory with just 39.8% of the popular vote.

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TIL that Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican president on 6 November 1860 – winning entirely with Northern and Western votes. His name didn’t even appear on ballots in 10 Southern slave states, yet he still won a decisive Electoral College victory with just 39.8% of the popular vote.

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TIL that after qualifying for the 5000m Olympic trials in 1928, black athlete Dolphus Stroud had to make his way to Boston on his own. He walked, ran, and hitch-hiked over 12 days, arriving 6 hours before his race. He collapsed due to exhaustion and malnutrition in the 6th lap

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TIL about the Fieldston neighborhood of New York City. Its 1.1 km2 is entirely privately owned, including the streets, sewers, and trees. Once a year, the streets are closed to non-residents to legally qualify the streets as privately owned.

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TIL That Mark Hunt, a West Virginia attorney, secretly funded a human cloning lab in hopes of replicating his deceased infant son, Andrew, using cutting-edge cloning techniques. After Andrew died at 10 months old due to birth defects.

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