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TIL that Mussolini's great-grandson is a soccer player who plays on the right wing at Lazio

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9YZgB TIL Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery in the American south by mailing himself to freedom. He had friends pack him into a small box, and ship him as cargo from Richmond to Philadelphia. He survived, and went on to work as a magician
o5Xr TIL that standardized time wasn’t used until trains were invented.
Bg7BD TIL that Brigadier General Edward Ferrero, an immigrant from Spain, was one of General Burnside’s division commanders in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.
JYdoQ TIL Director Akira Kurosawa was so impressed with The Magnificent Seven, the American adaptation of his own film, Seven Samurai, that he presented director John Sturges with a sword
1k4X TIL: The wide variety of craft beer found in the US would not have been possible without president Carter signing H.R.1337, the “Homebrew act,” into law.