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e8VD TIL The original version of the American Pledge of Allegiance did not include the line “[…] one Nation, under God[…]”, which was added in 1954.
dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.
Y4oB TIL inventor Ray Kurzweil takes 150 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea every day and drinks several glasses of red wine a week in an effort to “reprogram” his biochemistry so that he might live longer
xV8lD TIL Jimmy Carter's family were all farmers for 350 years and no member of his father’s family had ever finished high school. Carter's childhood dream was "to go to the Naval Academy, get a college education, and serve in the U.S. Navy"