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TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."

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69e1l TIL a woman flying from Manchester to Florida had a heart attack during the flight and when the stewardess asked for help 15 cardiologists came to save her. They were flying to a cardiology conference.
0yP1 TIL that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by 80% of the Republican House members, and 82% of the Republican Senate members.
MEQ7 TIL Anderson Cooper was in the CIA
J9WB TIL a woman walked across the US continuously for 28 years, only to be killed in an automobile accident while being driven to a speaking engagement about her travels.
wv8E TIL of Scotty Phillip, remembered as the “Man who saved the Buffalo”. A South Dakota rancher credited with bringing back Buffalo from the brink of extinction.