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TIL more than half the American deaths in the War of 1812 were from Kentucky

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5VBAP TIL Eugene V. Debs ran for president of the United States in 1920 from prison after being convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918.
VwND TIL that Eric Idle of Monty Python fame called George Harrison “one of the few morally good people that rock and roll has produced”.
V6m4 TIL In 2010 motorcyclist Anthony Graber was arrested under Maryland’s wiretapping law for recording a traffic stop and posting it to YouTube. Charges were later dismissed in court because “a police officer on a traffic stop has no legal expectation of privacy”
R596w TIL that Corinna Kopf retires from OF at 28 after earning $67 million over three years. In comparison, Keanu Reeves has earned a combined total of $22 million for the four John Wick films he has done, which is less than the average yearly payday of Kopf on OF.
5Vrap TIL That at the age of 14 Nadia Comăneci scored her first 10.0 at the Olympic Games. She went on to receive six more perfect 10s en route to winning three gold medals.