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TIL that all US Presidents, but one, share the ancestor King John Lackland who signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

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N7OMb TIL there is a monument in Canada commemorating the 14th division of Hitler's SS.
loR7N TIL during his reign in the 630s Caliph Umar was the first to appoint police forces to keep civil order.
R5KX9 TIL Gene Roddenberry's only appearance in Star Trek was as a ship's chef who told Captain Kirk that the turkey-shaped meatloaf in the galley ovens had turned into real turkeys.
ABng TIL, at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Jesse Owens (3 Golds already in hand) was one failed jump away from not even qualifying for the Long Jump Final. German competitor, Luz Long, placed a white towel 1 foot from the plate & told Jesse to ‘take off from there.’
0wgWA TIL that after being denied access to one and with no public knowledge about its architecture, India built its first supercomputer in just 3 years which then became the second fastest supercomputer at the time.