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TIL 1996 U.S. Cables have detailed how the Saudi Royal Family members received stipends up to $200,000-$270,000 a month, and when a US embassy economics officer visited the office responsible for the distribution, he described it as a place “bustling with servants picking up cash for their masters.”

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VMb5m TIL that John Tyler is the only US president laid to rest under a flag not of the United States. His allegiance to the Confederacy and death during the Civil War resulted in his burial under the Confederate Flag.
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