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TIL Puerto Rico is only 100 miles across
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TIL That then retired General Smedley Butler (author of “War is a Racket”) was approached by “moneyed interests” from Wall Street with a plot to overthrow FDR. He took the info to Congress, they agreed there was a plot, didn’t do anything about it.
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TIL Lego started by copying their product and designs from Hilary Fisher Page's Kiddicraft Blocks, eventually driving him to suicide after his company was ruined
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TIL Stuart Copeland, drummer from the band “The Police” created the music for “Spyro the Dragon” on the original PlayStation.
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TIL that "Reverend" is an adjective (meaning revered or respected), not a noun. A clergyperson is properly referred to as "The Reverend (name)", not simply "Reverend (name)"
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TIL there is a type of hysteria that affects people living in the Arctic, called pibloktoq. The affected person usually shouts unintelligibly, tears off their clothes and runs around naked – despite frigid temperatures – before collapsing, sleeping, and then recovering.