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TIL That a 15 year old Andrew Jackson refused an order to shine the shoes of a British Officer. The officer then slashed the future president with his saber, leaving a permanent scar and hatred for the British

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Z69G TIL that Shel Silverstein, who many of us know for “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, wrote Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”
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