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TIL The US Army Intelligence Service states Elvis Presley is a "definite danger to the security of the United States" because he had driven girls and boys mad.

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xJ7b TIL credit bureaus must respond to disputes within 30 calendar days of filing, or the dispute is removed from a credit report. If a dispute is filed in, say, mid-December, those 30 days include the time the office is closed for the holidays (and the backup created because of that).
RRQw TIL if you walk outside George Orwell’s old house in London you are now captured on surveillance cameras 33 times.
kVlm TIL Irish slaves used to be shipped to America where they would be forced to breed with black slaves in order to produce “mulatto” slaves that were worth more than the cheap white Irish slaves.
eeDJ TIL that European Royal Families had a “Court Jew” to handle finances and negotiate loans since usury was forbidden by the Catholic Church
B4Gk TIL that the Miami Bath Salts Cannibal was actually not high on bath salts when he ate the face off of another man along the MacArthur Causeway three years ago