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TIL 15th U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves with his own money in order to free them.

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9YGa6 TIL the Olympic Games paused for 1500 years and then resumed in 1896.
L4WQ TIL Russell Crowe was once contacted by the FBI about Al Qaeda wanting to kidnap him to take “iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan.” Russel Crowe isn’t American though. He’s originally from New Zealand.
16k4O TIL: In 1932, Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to the Los Angeles Olympics, so they put them on a ship filled with coffee. The athletes sold the coffee along the way to fund their trip.
NXpOJ TIL the Philippine Independence Day was originally 4th of July, the date when the United States declared and recognized its independence on 1946 but later moved by the then Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal to June 12
O116 TIL Bryan Cranston spent hundreds of hours practicing roller skating so that he could perform in the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where he teaches Malcom to roller blade.