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TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a Second Bill of Rights that included financial freedom from monopolies and unfair competition.

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5KvR TIL The word for Bear in many languages is just a vague description of a bear - the original word was taboo
4Xkpw TIL that Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Mr. Wednesday on the Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods." (It went to Ian McShane.)
ANMOg TIL the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing took an estimated inflation-adjusted $10 000 to produce
GYvw7 TIL during Poland's "Deluge," a Swedish Invasion that virtually destroyed the country, many whole libraries (including the Royal Library) were stolen, put on boats, and shipped to Sweden. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth became an "intellectual desert" and some of these books remain in Sweden.
4VGb TIL there is a photograph in the virtual museum of Canada dated from 1941 where a man in modern clothes is thought to be a time traveler and is given the name of “The time traveling hipster”.