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TIL the actual Maria Von Trapp had a cameo in The Sound of Music

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OGnwg TIL: The word "filibuster" was borrowed in the 1850s from a Spanish word meaning "lawless plunderer." It applied to private military adventurers from the U.S. who were attacking and pillaging Spanish colonies in Central America.
Ky54 TIL the “skin” on the Statute of Liberty is only 2.4mm thick. About the thickness of two pennies.
6Eklm TIL: The same night Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy birthday, Mr. President” to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, she reportedly gave him a Rolex Day-Date with the inscription “JACK, with love as always from MARILYN, May 29th 1962.” JFK told an aide to “get rid of it,”
oBDAA TIL of Nathaniel Gordon, the only person in the United States to be executed for attempting to sell human beings. Abraham Lincoln refused to commute Gordon’s sentence, despite thousands of people petitioning him for clemency.
kJVRW TIL America’s Loneliness Epidemic: Nearly 40 MILLION American adults now live alone and they are 64% more likely to be depressed than their peers