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TIL the FBI kept files on Elvis Presley because they believed he raised the sexual passions of teenagers posing a "definite danger to the security of the United States"

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d8XdB TIL Edward Dickinson Baker was serving as a U.S. Senator when the U.S. Civil War broke out and re-joined the Army as a colonel. He was killed in battle and remains the only sitting U.S. senator ever to be killed in a military engagement.
QJn7k TIL there is no 1 to X ratio if I want to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius!
PL7g TIL that women generally had more legal rights under Islamic law than they did under Western legal systems until more recent times
VdVm TIL: The educated middle class are now considered the working poor
wLmmJ TIL The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped save the lives of 122 million children since 1990.