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TIL Jesse Owens real name was “J. C. ”, but due to his strong southern accent people thought his name was Jesse.

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PRje TIL Canada puts 10.7% of their GDP into health care and covers all citizens, while the US spends 17.1% and doesn’t
wLVo6 TIL Winston Churchill had so much respect for the American Constitution that he called it the best constitution ever written in English
xdYD TIL Vatican City is the only place in the world where cash machines offer instructions in Latin.
0BJR TIL that when 16 year old John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in 1973, his billionaire grandfather refused to pay $17 million ransom. After the kidnappers mailed Getty’s ear to a newspaper, his grandfather only agreed to pay $2.2 million because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible.
BRrW TIL that in 2010, Lou Reed and his wife held a high frequency concert for dogs.