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TIL US President Andrew Jackson had been shot so many times people said he “rattled like a bag of marbles.”

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x6Vmg TIL - Hummel figurines were based on the paintings of Berta Hummel, later known as Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Early in life she enrolled in Munich’s famed State School of Applied Arts n art history, life drawing, watercolor and oil painting, and textile design graduating top of her class.
LRJZ TIL infamous NYC mobster/hitman Bugsy Siegal offered to kill Nazi leaders Herman Goring and Joseph Goebbels in 1938, only relenting because of a mistresses’ pleas
9Y1e6 TIL the reason why the top trim Toyota Tundra is named 1794 Edition is because the ranch that used to be on the land Toyota's Texan factory occupies was founded in 1794.
7K9x TIL that by coincidence the first British soldier to be killed in WW1 was buried a few feet from the last British soldier to be killed in WW1 in a war cemetery in Belgium.
6EylJ TIL for an entire season Michael Jordan would bet Scottie Pippen on the Jumbotron races during timeouts (but MJ would have the scoreboard operator tell him the outcome ahead of time).