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TIL: Canadian JW Boucher served in the American Civil War and World War 1

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wLL6M TIL that Nelsan Ellis, who played Martin Luther King Jr. in Lee Daniels' The Butler, died in 2017 at 39, the same age as Martin Luther King Jr.
68Z8 TIL of a Romanian Princess who opposed the alliance with Germany during WWII. She personally took custody of surviving Allied crews who were bombing her country, saw that they were cared for in her hospitals, and facilitated their escape to Italy. She helped more than 1000 US crewmen shot down.
PY1de TIL Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2016, the first metal recording to do so.
x6M9b TIL that when Borland needed a name for a new software product, developers wanted to call it "Delphi". Marketing wanted "AppBuilder". A few months before release, Novell shipped its own "AppBuilder", preventing that name's use. The developers got their wish and the company announced Borland Delphi.
Zwwa TIL that, adjusted for inflation, the U.S. federal minimum wage has dropped 20% from 1967 to 2010