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TIL Martian Van Buren Was the First President Born in the United States

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9Yjkp TIL Veronica Roth, author of the 'Divergent' trilogy, wrote her 1st book in her senior year at Northwestern University. Her career took off with the publishing rights sold before she even graduated college & the film rights sold before the novels were even printed.
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wLBoP TIL The show Friends still makes $1 billion a year for Warner Bros. and each of the main cast members makes $20 million
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