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TIL that U.S. President James Garfield’s great-great-grandson is the creator of Magic: The Gathering

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KOZMB TIL when the movie The Death of Sta lin got banned in Russia, 58% of Russians from a poll by Public Research Center said they would watch the movie if the ban were lifted. The movie has been illegally downloaded around 1.5 million times over there
KOpE6 TIL that King Louis XVI was condemned to death by a majority of only 1 vote. Amongst those who voted in favor of the execution was the king's own cousin, Philippe Égalité, whom the king did not have positive relations with. Philippe himself would be guillotined on the same scaffold a year later.
6J1Y TIL J. Paul Getty refused to pay for his grandson’s ransom. When an ear arrived by mail and the kidnappers lowered the sum to $3m instead of $17m, he agreed to pay only $2.2 million - the maximum amount that would be tax deductible. He lent his son the remaining $800.000, at a 4% interest.
VGJp TIL that when former president Teddy Roosevelt died in his sleep in 1919, Thomas R. Marshall, the sitting vice-president, said “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.”
kkbm TIL: The only notable person known to have both been born and died on February 29 was Sir James Wilson (1812–1880), Premier of Tasmania