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TIL John Kluge, as Chairman of MetroMedia, was the Richest Man in America in 1987. During WW II, the German born Kluge served as an interrogator at a secret military base that processed high ranking Germans, including those who were part of Operation Paper Clip, including Werner Von Braun.

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kJOR1 TIL of Byron Looper, a Tennessee politician known for both changing his middle name to "(Low Tax)" as a vote-winning stunt and, during a Tennessee state senate race, assassinating his opponent. In the election, held a month later, he still received 1,531 votes.
v1oB4 TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia's apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.
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E1BxP TIL there is a statue of the witch Samantha from TV's Bewitched in Salem, Massachusetts.