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TIL Pope John XII died during an aduterous affair

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oeLE TIL that only one senator opposed the USA PATRIOT act in 2001; among his chief concerns was the possibility that the FISA court would authorize the government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans by obtaining their information and communications through businesses
yoaM TIL that although Walt Disney is often rumored to have been an anti-Semite he donated to several Jewish charities and was named “1955 Man of the Year” by the B'nai B'rith chapter in Beverly Hills.
P7og TIL when Andrew Jackson was asked what his most important accomplishment had been during his term as president, he replied, “I killed the bank.” He was talking about the Second Bank of the United States.
RJr9 TIL that close to 50 million people died at the hands of Japanese aggression between 1931 and 1945 in the Asian Holocaust during the Asia Pacific War
J1B7B TIL: That private servers of abandoned games are legal for preservation purposes