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TIL the Declaration of Independence was not signed on July 4, 1776, but rather on August 2, 1776. And historians believe seven of the 56 signatures on the document were placed there later.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 5:32 pm

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by QuestionGuy June 27, 2022, 5:40 pm

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TIL the Ottawa Convention is a 1997 treaty signed by 133 countries to ban antipersonnel land mines. The U.S. never signed. The U.S. placed thousands of mines in the DMZ between the Koreas during the Cold War to help deter an overwhelming ground invasion from the North.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 1:43 am

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Founding father Roger Sherman is the only person to have signed all four of the most significant documents in America’s early history: the Continental Association from the first Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution.

by HistoryBuff June 4, 2022, 12:04 pm

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TIL that the first piece of legislation passed by the 1st U.S. Congress was the Tariff of 1789, which levied a 50¢ per ton duty on goods imported by foreign ships. President Washington signed the act and the money was used to pay off the Revolutionary War debt.

by whatilearned June 2, 2022, 6:10 pm

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TIL l South Yorkshire town of Doncaster is technically part of Scotland. Its Scottish history dates way back to the 12th century (1136, to be specific), when the town was signed over to King David I in the Treaty of Durham, and it was never officially given back.

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 10:04 am

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TIL that In 1959, Turkish Prime Minister at that time had plane crash while on his way to London to sign the London Agreement on the Cyprus issue, survived from the wreckage and signed the agreement in hospital some days later.

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 9:52 pm

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TIL Finnish Nato application was signed by Finnish Minister of Foreign affairs by a pen loaned from a journalist, who had “loaned” the pen earlier from his wife without saying anything. All the said pens are now sold out in Finland after the news broke out.

by whatilearned May 18, 2022, 9:58 am

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TIL on December 31, 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a lease for an unused brewery for 9,000 years, at £45 per year, in Dublin. Now known as the St. James’s Gate or Guinness Brewery, the original lease is no longer in effect because the brewery expanded beyond its original 4-acre site.

by whatilearned May 3, 2022, 11:45 pm

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TIL about Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, a Paraguayan army major general who launched a coup against the dictator Alfredo Stroessner, successfully managed to overthrow and exile him, re-democratized Paraguay, signed a Paraguayan constitution with presidential term limits into law, and then stepped down.

by whatilearned May 3, 2022, 1:30 am

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TIL that the Korean War never ended. Although the fighting between North and South Korea and their respective allies ended in July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, no peace treaty was ever signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.

by whatilearned April 28, 2022, 5:29 pm

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TIL despite maintaining it was ‘leaked’, both Kim Kardashian and Ray J signed a legal agreement with Vivid Entertainment allowing them to distribute their sex tape.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 2:48 pm

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