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TIL that Winston Churchill claims that Jordan’s zigzagging border was partly due to the fact that he mapped them out drunk

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oRo6o TIL in 2009 an orangutan in an Australian zoo aborted an "ingenious" escape plan. She short-circuited the electric fence around her enclosure by jamming a stick into the wires connected to it & then piled up debris to climb a wall. However she sat on the fence for 30 min before voluntarily returning
vP6nx TIL Tony Blair is a hero in Kosovo and some children are named “Tonibler” in his honour
wokNP TIL: There is no express written limitation in the Constitution barring a person with a criminal conviction from holding office as the President of the United States
yQm4X TIL that Shirley Temple, following the end of her acting career, made an unsuccessful run for congress and later became United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia
N7BlP TIL of Fritz Suhren, a concentration camp commandant. When the allies were close, he took Odette Sansom, an inmate whom he believed to be Churchill's niece, and drove with her to the US base, hoping it would save him. She was in fact a British spy under a false name. He was hanged in 1950