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TIL that ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ in politics come from the politics of the people sitting on the left and right hand sides of the president during the French Revolution in the 1790s

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YYwP TIL there have been over 2,000 nuclear bombs dropped on the world since 1945.
6ErVQ TIL at the start of the 2008 crash, the second Wall Street firm to reduce its position in mortgage-backed securities was Lehman Brothers Inc, which went bankrupt soon after. The first firm was Goldman Sachs, who moved early at the urging of two employees as dramatized in the 2011 film "Margin Call".
vPXZB TIL San Marino has two heads of state at once (a diarchy). The heads of state, called "Captains Regent" serve 6-month long terms. They currently have the youngest head of state in the world at 27 and have had a more female heads of state than any other nation with 18.
Xpxk TIL that a man sued Bank of America for erroneously foreclosing on his home and won. When they didn’t pay the fees, he foreclosed their bank.
kJVY5 TIL that when Muhammad Ali first fought Sonny Liston, both fighters were widely disliked by reporters (Ali for his brashness and Liston for his connections to organised crime), leading to sports writer Jim Murray to hope for a double knockout.