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TIL there are 11 surviving people born in the 1800s.
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TIL Teddy Roosevelt Jr (son of President Theodore Roosevelt) was the oldest man to invade the beaches of Normandy, the only man to invade Normandy with his son (Cpt. Quentin Roosevelt II on Omaha Beach), and he was the only general to lead his troops (on Omaha beach with only a cane and a pistol)
jG6E
TIL Debbie Harry, who turns 70 on July 1, is considered the first rapper to chart at number one in the United States.
0ypM
TIL: in 2008 Mississippi, a lady attempted to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car. Police could not charge her or her daughter, the child’s mother, with selling the child because in Mississippi, the practice is legal.
NXYyM
Today I learned that approximately two thirds of the moon rocks given as gifts by the Nixon administration are unaccounted for.
wrb7
TIL that actor Paul Marcarelli, better know as the “Verizon Guy,” kept his silence that he was gay from Verizon in fear that he would lose his role. He later came out after his contract with Verizon ended.