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TIL that Molly Ringwald has worked as a French translator

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X0AXQ TIL that in 1615 a party of Spanish whalers were left stranded in Iceland. The Spaniards stole a locals fish and in retaliation a group of Icelanders massacred the robbers. Due to this the sheriff declared all Spaniards were criminals. Only in 2015 after a memorial of the dead,the decree was revoked
VNWG TIL in 1840 Abraham Lincoln and four other legislators jumped out of a window in order to prevent a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois state bank.
691v7 TIL they make car elevators to make parking easier especially in narrow streets. They cost $55,000 and Harrison Ford, Britney Spears and Mitt Romney all have one.
bRvp TIL Philadelphia literally burns old money for electricity
dD0DZ TIL the 1975 union promo song "Look For the Union Label" was popular enough to be used in political campaigns, spoofed by SNL and decades later by South Park. but it failed in its goal to slow the growth of non-union clothing manufacturing jobs and foreign imports