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TIL Jimmy Carter still lives in the same $167,000 house he built in Georgia in 1961 and shops at Dollar General

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VkWG TIL that a large percentage of native Jamaicans have Irish ancestry due to the large influx of “Irish Slaves” between the 15th and 18th century.
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