Yes, I'm slow to the party. It was just today that I learned that TIL means *today, I learned*

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IP addresses can be sorted with `sort -V`. (It's the option for version numbers.)

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One of the largest and wealthiest slave owners in Tennessee was Sherrod Bryant, an African-American. 

![](http://www.charmofthecarolines.com/.a/6a01156faa621f970c014e895ab4ab970d-pi)


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Abraham Lincoln is in the [National Wrestling Hall of Fame](http://nwhof.org/stillwater/resources-library/history/wrestling-in-the-usa/) for a record of 299-1.

This shocked me as I have always thought of Abraham Lincoln as a feeble and sickly man, which was true of his later years as President and his paintings/photographs reveal a thin and weak man. I never considered how he would have been as a younger man.

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The West Africa country of Liberia was founded as a colony of America in 1822 by American Colonization Society.

It's capital, Monrovia, was named after the then US President, James Monroe.