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TIL That the US has a national Seed Bank.

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oMeE TIL that 6 of the most famous speeches in history; Eisenhower’s “military–industrial complex”, JFK’s “ask not what your country can do”, “we choose to go to the moon”, Mandela’s “I am prepared to die”, JFK’s “ich bin ein Berliner”, and MLK’s “I have a dream” were made within 2 years of each other.
yQe9p TIL someone in Voronexh, Russia vandalized a Soviet-era monument not by destroying it, but by painting it to look like Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants.
l57N TIL: In 2007, British Pop singer Lily Allen released a song about her lazy brother Alfie, who sits in his room all day watching TV and smoking weed. In the song she told him to grow up and get a job. Alfie Allen is probably better known today as the actor who plays Theon Greyjoy on Game of Thrones.
J1km TIL Albert Einstein and his first wife had a daughter, but no one seems to know what happened to her after she was a year old.
awgBb TIL that Christopher Columbus was jailed upon his return to Spain for mistreating the native population of Hispaniola