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TIL that the last president to send their children to the DC public school system was Jimmy Carter.

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oQDo TIL the founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones got kicked out of the band and then died less than a month later
wOG8 TIL of the Parsley Massacre, a government-sponsored genocide of ethnic Haitian civilians in 1937. Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask “What is this?”; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley would determine his/her fate.
ADj0l TIL of Elouise Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”) who founded the first Native American owned bank. As treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation she tried to resolve accounting discrepancies regarding leases on Indian Land which led to a $3.4 Billion dollar class action settlement against the US government.
kOdW TIL citizens of a small NY town forced McDonalds to renovate (instead of tearing down) the ~200-year-old Georgian mansion it purchased, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location
wL8aE TIL when the viking Rollo Flanders was asked to kiss the foot of King Charles, he refused and instead commanded one of his warriors to do it. The warrior complied by taking the king’s foot, lifting it to head height while dragging the king out of his chair, and kissing the king’s foot.