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TIL that of the 12 Generals who became presidents, only 3 (Washington, Eisenhower, and Andrew Johnson) didn't have bases named after them.

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wo6EM TIL that Kentucky, not one of the original 13 colonies of the United States, was the last state to get both a star and a stripe added to the flag. Vermont and Kentucky were given both a star and a stripe to the flag as the 14th and 15th states admitted into the Union. This remained until 1818.
Aobo TIL that Ted Gunderson, an ex-FBI Special Agent in Charge and executive level FBI director, believed that a shadow government controls the US government, sophisticated child trafficking rings involve persons in Congress, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was the result of FBI provocateurs.
b619 TIL Stephen Colbert had a Southern accent but suppressed it because of the negative way Southerners are portrayed on TV.
MkyA TIL that rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow in the 80s sold drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars
jgQ TIL Sonny Bono, Jason Lee, and even Charles Manson are/were scientologists, except Manson was the only one to call it “too crazy” and leave the church.