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TIL Wealthy magnates plotted to overthrow Roosevelt but were foiled by a two-time Medal of Honor Recipient. Although a Congressional Committee found the plot to be true, no arrests were ever made.

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J1OrB TIL The tears on Paul Stanley's face on the album cover for "Rock and Roll Over" were just a printing error...
9wVbX TIL Oilbirds (Guácharos) are cave dwelling nocturnal fruiteaters that breed and roost in large colonies in lightless South American caves. They echolocate, use whiskers to sense surfaces, and have eyes with the highest light-gathering capacity of any bird. Their chicks are rich in fat.
pYPdZ TIL Michael Schumacher donated $10 million to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was the highest individual donation made in the disaster that killed more than 220,000 people. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.
b6Dw7 TIL that the word "shrapnel" comes from Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel, inventor of the first Shrapnel shell, whose name eventually came to be associated with the metal fragments his creation produced.
OoYX6 TIL Two babies were switched at birth, one family was rich and the other poor, the rich couple's biological baby became a truck driver and the poor couple's biological baby became a CEO of a company