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TIL The BBC publishes in Pidgin (including its cookie policy)

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wopP7 TIL: Thomas Ward Custer is the first man to receive the Medal of Honor twice, but the only reason he is forgotten is because of his older brother.
84DP TIL John Ashcroft, former US Attorney General, lost a Senate Race, as the incumbent, to man who died weeks before the election
wLLLM TIL James Watson (co-discoverer of the structure of DNA), had to auction off his Nobel Prize Medal due to poverty. A Russian billionaire bought it for $4.1M and returned it stating, “a situation in which an outstanding scientist has to sell a medal recognising his achievements is unacceptable.”
wY81 TIL It costs $12,500 to deport a single illegal immigrant in the United States.
Z8njD TIL A California man hunts for 100 year old Levi jeans in abandoned mines, in order to sell them to collectors for $30,000 - $100,000 a pair.