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TIL when James Brady (the White House Press Secretary paralyzed by a gunshot wound from the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt) died in 2014, it was ruled a homicide 33 years after the incident.

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6KEm TIL that America’s Got Talent top prize of one million dollars is paid out over 40 years!
gpPy TIL; Bistro is not French for Cáfe, but the word Russian cosacks would shout at French waiters, meaning “quickly”
xpeD TIL Henry Ford started the concept of the “five-day workweek” in order to resolve the conflict between Christians and Jews over which day of Sabbath they should get off. He did this without reducing pay in order to prove that the same amount of production after six days can be met in five.
e0le5 TIL of the Sodder children disappearance. The Sodder family still believes that 5 of its children who disappeared after a fire burned their house in 1945, were actually kidnapped by Mussolini in retaliation to George Sodder’s criticism of his regime
l7eOa TIL Sigmund Freud's personal library in London has over 1600 books showing his wide range of interests and are still searchable today through the Freud Museum. Authors Freud had include Darwin, Locke, Feuerbach, Krafft-Ebing, Shakespeare, Goethe and Dostoevsky