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TIL that an assassination attempt was made against retired US President Theodore Roosevelt- he was saved by a 50 page speech in his breast pocket. Roosevelt then proceeded to deliver said speech with a bullet lodged in his ribs.

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b91Rp TIL there is no Queen of England. The sovereign nation called England came to an end in 1707 following union with Scotland.
v1de8 TIL there was a Tennessee Republican politician who changed his middle name to 'Low tax' so that it would appear on the ballot box, murdered his political opponent in a later senatorial race, was sentenced to life and died in prison.
BrKyb TIL of Joy Milne who claimed that she smelled a distinct odor in patients with Parkinson's disease like her husband. She sniffed 6 shirts from people with Parkinson’s and 6 from healthy controls and identified 7 had it. 8 months later the "healthy" patient she "misidentified" was diagnosed as well.
KN9B TIL Sex trafficking is the fastest growing business of organized crime with an estimated revenue of $32 billion annually, or $87 million a day. There are an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 trafficking victims in the U.S alone.
Wk189 TIL 25 years after its release, Mariah Carey still earns around $3,300,000 a year in royalties alone for her song "All I Want for Christmas Is You"