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TIL that Fox News parent company “News Corp” has historically given more money to democrats than republicans.

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x6MRo TIL about Thomas Cranmer, a Catholic priest who helped lead the English Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He even secretly married in Germany before it was allowed. When Mary I took power, she reversed the reforms, branded him a heretic, and had him burned at the stake.
1aEWV TIL that the USS Missouri, the battleship on which the Japanese Surrendered in 1945 fired tomahawks cruise missiles in the 1991 Gulf War
69R58 TIL that the 1947 version of the Christmas film ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ was released in late Spring because the studio head argued that more people went to the movies in warmer weather, so the film was promoted without any references to Santa or Christmas.
R5LRw TIL that the Museum of London had a whole exhibit for a chunk of sewage
vyBL TIL Finland plans to make access to 100 Mbit/s internet a legal right for all citizens by 2015