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TIL: JFK Considered Buying the Philadelphia Eagles During His Presidency

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16XAr TIL that the ‘Parting Glass’ mentioned in the Scottish farewell song refers to an old tradition of giving someone a final drink after they mount their horse to fortify them for their journey. The drink, called a stirrup cup, was the final hospitality offered to a departing guest.
LkoNd TIL that white Harvard student and seminarian Jonathon Daniels traveled to the south to fight against segregation and later died shielding a black girl from a special county deputy's gunfire.He was later made a martyr.
7rVwL TIL that Disneyworld has it's own government. The Reedy Creek Improvement District has two municipalities within itself, Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista. Both allow the Disney Corporation to issue their own building permits and liquor licenses... among other benefits.
kJkdB TIL Sir Admiral "Blinker" Hall became the UK's Director of Naval Intelligence—a desk job—and played an outsize role in getting the United States into World War I because commanding ships made him seasick.
N7PZ1 TIL That the Cuban Missile Crisis began when a CIA operative noticed soccer fields on a Cuban Military Base. “Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer”