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This seems appropriate after the last 3 days.
April 1, 2014 Washington Post decided to do an Opposite Day to April Fools.
April Fools! Since everyone else is going to be pulling pranks on you all day, we thought we’d be nice and tell you things that are true … although, they’re weird enough that we wouldn’t blame you for thinking we were joking.
1. In 1928, the Senate appropriated funds to knock out walls in the chamber because they thought bad air quality was killing senators.
2. New Jersey Rep. Rush Holt is a rocket scientist. He also beat supercomputer Watson at Jeopardy.
3. Fort Wayne, Ind., once had a mayor named Harry Baals.
4. California Sen. David Broderick is the only sitting senator to have been killed in a duel.
5. There is a Web page devoted to quotes that Thomas Jefferson didn’t say.
6. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar raised $17,000 for her senate campaign from ex-boyfriends.
7. Michigan Rep. John Dingell has served in Congress for more than 24 percent of the time since the American Revolution.
8. Approximately 15,000 books have been written about Abraham Lincoln.
9. Sixty-three percent of registered voters in the United States believe at least one political conspiracy.
10. The House of Representatives once investigated TV quiz shows to see if they were rigged.
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