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The last member of the Union's First Colored Kansas Volunteer Infantry has died. An abolitionist and Union officer, he spent his life fighting for the cause against slavery and befriended icons such as Muhammad Ali, Tupac, Harriet Tubman, and Justin Bieber. He was 191.

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Portrait de Facebook Oily Mama, 1795, Jacques Louis David.

David painted this portrait of a woman named Emilie. She had written to him under the pretense of rekindling their high school friendship only to sell him on a business opportunity during this portrait sitting.

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Bram van der Gamestaap, Frans Hals, 1624

Bram van der gamestaap, founder of the company that now goes by the Americanized name of GameStop. The original GameStaap sold supplies for Blind Man's Bluff, Hunt the Slipper, Burn the Heretic, Hang the Man, and Colonize All the Things.

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Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929-1933). Whip-smart, beautiful, vivacious, she showed great promise but is considered to be a disappointing president. She was in power at the onset of the Depression and spent retirement rehabilitating her image.

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Fashionista and British Loyalist John Malcolm was the first ever victim

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America's famous Liberty Bell formed a crack the first time it was struck. Jean Leon Gerome Ferris commemorated the strike with his oil painting "The Lady Strikes the Shitty Bell". Andrew McNair, the doorkeeper of the Assembly and of the Congress in 1776 said, "It's shit."

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Surprising news today with the passing of William Faulkner, the author of As I Lay Dying and the first installment of the Fast & Furious movies, The Sound and the Fury. He died at the age of 123 after a late-night drinking binge, having finished the tenth Fast & Furious script.

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James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States, was known as the "dark horse" in part because of his long, flowing eyebrows. Fully grown, they covered his eyes. Prior to his presidency a lock of his brows was saved and has been kept in an exhibit at the @tnstatemuseum

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The more you know!

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The Lloyd family sang at the first United States inauguration. Because modern-day traditional songs had yet to be written, they instead sang, "Bette David Eyes" by Kim Carnes and "Big Girls Don't Cry" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

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A commemorative button for polygamist and president George Washington on the occasion of his inauguration in 1789. The initials around the buttons are those of his 13 wives, the most famous of the wives, of course, being Martha.

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A discovery by the @britishmuseum has confounded experts. Curator Irving Finkel had long suspected there to be a secret compartment in their original copy of the Royal Game of Ur. However, the mystery grew when he discovered it and out fell a complete set of Monopoly tokens.

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(1933) Outgoing President Herbert Hoover and incoming President Franklin Delano Roosevelt cuddlebug under a blanket from @bigblanketco on Inauguration Day. "Plenty of room, comfy," Roosevelt told anyone who would listen. "It's everything Herbert and I wanted from a blanket."

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On this day in 1776, Betsy Ross stitched together the first pair of Stars and Stripes pants.

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Did you realize #TheVoice is just a remake? http://t.co/TI0LTtLB

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"Swimming in a public pool is like sitting in bathwater with ten others." -Winston Churchill

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Pet Owners Just as Ridiculous in the 1920′s http://tinyurl.com/46vnq3r

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1930: Biggest Loser Season 1 - http://goo.gl/q3kvs

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You'll Meet a Handsome Stranger. Would You Like a Receipt? - http://goo.gl/RxMwp

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When Words Fail. A Caption Contest http://t.co/7WP63nr