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TIL that Woody Guthrie’s popular American folk song “This Land is Your Land” has two lost verses that criticize capitalism and class inequalities in the US

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J0dl TIL of Oliver Sipple, who saved then President Gerald Ford’s life from an assassin, was subsequently outed as gay by the press, disowned by his family and ultimately died regretting saving the President