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TIL that the Credit Card industry refers to people who pay their credit card bills off every month as “deadbeats”

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DQngj TIL That when famous poet Carl Sandburg tried to visit a high school named after him the principal mistook him for a hobo. He was forcibly removed from the Campus.
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