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TIL that Moe, Curly, and Shemp were brothers. Larry wasn’t related to the other ones.

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dd4E TIL that 15th president James Buchanan, the only bachelor president, is suspected to have been a homosexual. He had a very close male friend whom he lived with for a decade, fellow politician Rufus King. President Andrew Jackson nicknamed the two Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy.
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