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TIL Only 2% of millennials have excellent credit.
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TIL a 2nd century textbook on Roman law by the Roman jurist Gaius was considered to be lost until a manuscript of it was discovered in Verona in 1816.
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Today I learned of a ww2 navy officer who escaped a POW camp in full uniform by pretending to be a Bulgarian officer named I Bugaroff
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TIL until just recently, Nintendo of America had complete ownership of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.
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TIL that Alexander Litvinenko, the Soviet Secret Service defector that was assassinated by polonium poisoning for defecting, converted to Islam in Britain. His father's reaction to this was "It doesn't matter. At least you're not a communist"
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TIL that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves living in Tennessee (or any other state under Union control).