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TIL 3 of the first 5 US presidents died on July 4th.

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MeLam TIL that J.K. Rowling wrote a real person into The Goblet of Fire. The girl was named Natalie McDonald, a Harry Potter fan who was dying of leukaemia while Rowling was still writing the book. You see her character as a first-year who dons the sorting hat and is sorted into Gryffindor.
8ekpP TIL after coming to the U.S as part of operation paperclip, Wernher Von Braun married his first cousin and moved to Alabama
xVvmD TIL a man named Theodore Coneys, AKA the Denver Spiderman, broke into a man’s house and hid in the attic. He ended up murdering the man, then continued to live in the attic for months during the murder investigation, while the murdered man’s wife still lived in the house
4dP5 TIL that “Painting Elephants” are tortured to break their spirit, and then trained to move their trunks in the direction the trainer pulls the elephants’ ears.
rRpOM TIL of Corazon Aquino, the wife of a staunch political opponent against the dictator of the Philippines. Upon the assassination of her husband by the dictator, she ran for president against him, winning and restoring democracy to the Philippines.